PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935179
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["137", "243000"]

Abstract:
A gate valve includes a solid wedge-shaped disc integrated with a cartridge at opposite ends thereof. Each cartridge includes rollers, guides and scrapers therein to roll along respective internal ribs while cleaning the ribs. The disc moves back and forth within the gate valve via the cartridges along ribs to open and close a water passage way formed in the gate.

Claim (Index 15):
A gate valve assembly, comprising:\n a body having a long tubular shape including ports extending through opposite sides thereof at one end to form a water flow path therethrough and a rib extending between each of the ports along the lengthwise direction; a wedge shaped disc disposed within the body and integrally formed with:\n a pair of rollers disposed in sequence within a perimeter of and along each side of the disc to roll along a respective rib; \n guides protruding from and extending along each side of the disc and adjacent to a respective side of each rib; and \n scrapers extending in parallel with the rollers and configured to scrape the respective rib while the rollers roll along the respective rib.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41304
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15389403', '10423701', '15729729', '11158381', '14351063']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8168472580457692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4568657083546283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7808491030766551
- Mean Citation Score: 144.79267199999995
- Max Citation Score: 161.19656
- Similarity Product: 118.8109713196373

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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