PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16033189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["172", "378000"]

Abstract:
The invention is a device for removing weeds and the like from the ground. The device is a simply attachment for a drill. It has a body with a shaft protruding from the center and at least two prongs protruding from the opposite side of the body at distances equidistant from the center. The free end of the shaft is placed into the chuck of an electric drill and the prongs are forced into the ground so that they are placed around a weed. The user operates the drill, thus spinning the prongs around the weed. The prongs entangle the weed's roots and bore a small hole in the ground, allowing the user to easily remove the weed. The prongs are then placed into the ground close to the hole, and the drill is slowly operated, thus refilling the hole. The invention has a plurality of edges and corners that allow the operator to shear weeds and the like that become entangled on the device, thus easily removing them.

Claim (Index 2):
The weed removing and soil preparation device disclosed in  claim 1  wherein the body is 1 and \u00bd inches long, \u00bd inch wide, and \u00bd incch deep, the shaft is hexagonal in cross-section and is \u00bc wide and protrudes \u00be inch to 2 and \u00bc inches from the body, the prongs are square or rectangular in cross-section and taper from 6/32 inch wide at the upper end to 4/32 inch wide at the lower end and protrude 2 inches from the body, and the prongs are 12/16 inch apart as measured from the center of their cross-sections.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34615
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12459200', '10717724', '10872631', '15432579', '10940462']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7294744908715712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4708236930664254
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7036094110910567
- Mean Citation Score: 157.619578
- Max Citation Score: 161.32668
- Similarity Product: 114.78063282461645

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

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