PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["116", "284000"]

Abstract:
A bulk material storage bin has an upright wall supporting a plurality of vertically spaced indicators providing a person with visual information regarding the level of the bulk material in the bin. The indicators have bright color and dark color surfaces that are selectively displayed to provide a person with information of the level of bulk material in the bin. An actuator located in the bin cooperates with a motion transmission apparatus to move visual members to an ON position displaying the bright color when the bulk material engages the actuator and to an OFF position displaying the dark color when the actuator is free of bulk material. The motion transmission apparatus includes a rod movably retained on an O-ring held on a mount device secured to the side wall of the bin. A yoke supporting an endless flexible member mounted on the rod is connected to the visual members whereby movement of the rod moves the visual members between the ON and OFF positions.

Claim (Index 12):
An indicator for providing information to a person regarding the level of material located within a bin having an inside side wall and a chamber for holding the material comprising:\n a housing having an internal chamber, at least one visual member movably mounted on the housing, said visual member having a first portion and a second portion spaced from the first portion located in the internal chamber of the housing, a first color on the first portion of the visual member, said second portion of the visual member having a second color, said first color and second color being visually contrasting colors, a light transparent member joined to the housing enclosing the visual member within the chamber of the housing, an actuator locatable within the chamber of the bin for movement from a first position to a second position when engaged with material in the bin and from the second position to the first position when material in the bin does not engage the actuator, said actuator including a flexible body and extended downwardly into the chamber of the bin, said flexible body having a tubular member with a passage, a bar adapted to be located within the bin and engageable with the upright inside wall of the bin, a tubular boss connected to the bar, a fastener attached to the boss adapted to hold the boss and bar on the bin, a plate attached to the bar for securing the flexible body to the bar, and a motion transmission apparatus operably connecting the actuator to the visual member, said motion transmission apparatus including a rod mounted on the boss, said rod having a rod section located in the passage of the tubular member whereby movement of the flexible body moves the rod and the actuator between its first and second positions selectively moving the visual member to locate the first color adjacent the light transparent member or the second color second portion of the visual member adjacent the transparent member whereby the first color or the second color second portion of the visual member is visible by a person located remote from the bin to provide the person with information concerning the level of material in the bin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17949
- Patent Class: 116.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14820706', '13781342', '11934038', '13781406', '12505064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6939806674353103
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5516901882817984
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6797516195199591
- Mean Citation Score: 230.181878
- Max Citation Score: 465.79807
- Similarity Product: 429.1093855734378

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

Dataset: test