PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978633
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["296", "100140"]

Abstract:
A tarpaulin support assembly includes a trailer that has a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall. A tarpaulin deploying unit is movably coupled to the trailer, and the tarpaulin deploying unit includes a pair of arms that are each pivotally positioned on a respective one of the first lateral side and the second lateral side of the trailer. Each of the arms is urgeable into a selected angular orientation on the trailer to deploy and retract a tarpaulin over the trailer. A pair of support units is provided and each of the support units is coupled to the trailer. Each of the support unit has a respective one of the arms is pivotally coupled thereto. Moreover, each of the support units is retainable at a selected angular position with respect to the trailer such that each of the arms is supported at the selected angular position. Each of the support units transfers the weight of the tarpaulin into the trailer thereby inhibiting the arms from being damaged.

Claim (Index 14):
A tarpaulin support assembly being configured to support tarpaulin arms at a selected angle on a trailer, said assembly comprising:\n a trailer having a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall; a tarpaulin deploying unit being movably coupled to said trailer, said tarpaulin deploying unit including a pair of arms each being pivotally positioned on a respective one of said first lateral side and said second lateral side of said trailer, each of said arms being urgeable into a selected angular orientation on said trailer to deploy and retract a tarpaulin over said trailer; and a pair of support units, each of said support units being coupled to said trailer, each of said support unit supporting a respective one of said arms, each of said support units being retainable at a selected angular position with respect to said trailer such that each of said arms is supported at said selected angular position, each of said support units transferring the weight of said tarpaulin into said trailer thereby inhibiting said arms from being damaged, each of said support units comprising:\n a base having a first surface and a second surface, said first surface being coupled to said trailer having said second surface lying on a plane being horizontally oriented; \n a pair of disks, each of said disks having a first side, a second side and an outer edge extending therebetween, said outer edge having a lower side and an upper side, said upper side of each of said disks being convexly arcuate and said lower side of each of said disks being straight, said lower side of each of said disks being coupled to said second surface of said base having each of said disks extending upwardly from said base, said disks being spaced apart from each other and being aligned with each other on said base, each of said disks having a plurality of apertures extending through said first side and said second side, each of said apertures in a first one of said disks being aligned with a respective one of said apertures in a second one of said disks, said apertures on each of said disks being spaced apart from each other and being distributed along said upper side of said respective disk such that said apertures in each of said disks forms an arc extending upwardly from said second surface of said base, each of said apertures defining a respective one of a minimum position, a maximum position or a respective one of a plurality of medial positions; \n a member having a first end and a second end, said first end being positioned between said disks; \n a fastener extending through each of said disks and pivotally engaging said first end of said member such that said member is pivotally positioned between said disks, said member being alignable with selected ones of said apertures in said disks; \n a saddle being pivotally coupled to said second end of said member, said saddle slidably receiving a respective one of said arms of said tarpaulin unit, said saddle including a pair of uprights each extending away from said member, said respective arm being positioned between said uprights; \n a first pin being extendable through each of said uprights to retain said respective arm between said first pin and said member thereby inhibiting said respective arm from leaving said saddle; and \n a second pin being extendable through a selected one of said apertures in each of said disks and engaging said member to retain said member in a selected one of said minimum, maximum or medial positions, said member transferring the weight of said tarpaulin from said respective arm into said base, said tarpaulin being stretched a minimum distance when said member is retained at said minimum position thereby facilitating said tarpaulin to cover a trailer having a minimum length, said tarpaulin being stretched to a maximum distance when said member is retained at said maximum distance thereby facilitating said tarpauling to cover a trailer having a maximum length, said tarpaulin being stretched to differing medial lengths when said member is retained at a selected one of said medial positions thereby facilitating said tarpaulin to cover a trailer having a corresponding medial length.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91803
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11521468', '12044560', '11053462', '15055549', '12437332']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7627828832663252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4474327815091831
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7312478730906109
- Mean Citation Score: 164.693506
- Max Citation Score: 196.24857
- Similarity Product: 161.9455055675626

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

Dataset: test