PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969700
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["294", "058000"]

Abstract:
Material moving devices include ergonomic improvements that reduce extraneous work required and lessen strain experienced by users. Material moving devices include a head for receiving material to be moved and a first elongated handle with a grip at the far end for gripping by a first hand of a user. A second handle is coupled to the head for gripping by a second hand of the user. The second handle can be pivotably coupled to the head in a location or locations generally longitudinally aligned with the expected location of the center of mass of the head when loaded with material to be moved.

Claim (Index 12):
An apparatus for moving materials by hand comprising\n a head for receiving materials; a first elongated handle having first and second ends the first rigidly coupled to the head, the elongated handle characterized by a central axis extending away from a rear portion of the head generally in the direction of a longitudinal centerline of the head; a first grip coupled to the second end of the first handle for holding by a first hand of a user, and; a second handle, wherein the second handle is generally U shaped having first and second ends and a central portion therebetween wherein the first end of the second handle is pivotably coupled to a first coupling location on a first side wall of the head and the second end of the second handling is pivotably coupled to a second coupling location on a second side wall of the head the central portion for holding by a second hand of the user, wherein the second handle is constructed and arranged to allow the user's second hand to be slidable along the central portion to allow the user to slide a location where the user holds the central portion from a first location on the central portion aligned with the longitudinal centerline of the apparatus for moving materials to a second location on the central portion displaced away from the longitudinal centerline of the apparatus for moving materials, wherein the second handle is formed from a flexible tube from a flexible tube, wherein the flexible tube provides an in-line spring having a spring force, the spring force provided by a bending stiffness of the flexible tube that resists a shape change of the second handle when the apparatus for moving materials is lifted by the second handle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86207
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12585173', '10218769', '13487582', '10613466', '10513902']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7164246893836796
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4597653669621638
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6907587571415281
- Mean Citation Score: 165.59178799999995
- Max Citation Score: 171.95647
- Similarity Product: 135.33963264715553

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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