PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16118693
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["056", "016800"]

Abstract:
A lawn mower deck cleaning system and method is provided for cleaning mower decks and other interior surfaces that become layered with debris over time. The cleaning system comprises an elongated conduit affixed to the mower deck that provides a means of communicating a solid material from a hopper directly into the mower deck interior. The upper end of the conduit comprises a hopper with upstanding sidewalls and an interior configured to support solid ice material therein. The lower end of the conduit terminates at a junction along the mower deck surface, whereby solid ice moves through the conduit, through the junction and into the mower deck interior to be jettisoned against the walls of the mower deck and ultimately pulverized by the spinning mower blade. The cleaning system is one contemplated for lawn mowers and other reciprocating machinery, as well as both push mowers and ride-on mower decks.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of cleaning a mower deck interior, comprising:\n connecting a snorkel assembly to a mower deck at a junction, wherein the snorkel assembly comprises an elongated conduit; wherein the junction comprises an opening through a mower deck configured to allow a solid material to pass therethrough and into an interior of the mower deck; positioning the conduit in an upstanding position and supporting a hopper at an upper end of the conduit; positioning the solid material placed within the hopper, the hopper configured to communicate into the conduit using a gravity feed; wherein the opening extends to an underside of the mower deck and facilitates the flow of the solid material therethrough.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98734
- Patent Class: 56.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10424301', '10873365', '13529057', '11680015', '09597069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7690581614278686
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4639850945415468
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7385508547392365
- Mean Citation Score: 188.472042
- Max Citation Score: 205.65294
- Similarity Product: 138.78618322595358

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

Dataset: test