PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16284403
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["294", "185000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to an operating device for a tube lifter having a lifting tube that has a tube interior and can be shortened by applying a vacuum to the tube interior, and having a suction grip device arranged on one end of the tube lifter, which suction grip device can be supplied with a vacuum through the tube interior, the operating device having a suction port for fluid communication with the suction grip device, a lifting tube port for fluid communication with the tube interior of the lifting tube, and valve means for controlling the fluid communications, the valve means including a control valve which is adjustable between a closed position and an open position, in the open position a flow path from the surroundings to the lifting tube port being open, and in the closed position said flow path being substantially closed, and a control mechanism comprising a manually actuable operating element being provided for adjusting the control valve.

Claim (Index 23):
Operating device according to  claim 1 ,\n characterized in that the blocking member comprises a third valve plate which is translationally movable or can be pivoted in the plane thereof and can be adjusted by rotating the manually rotatable rod.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55224
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16281234', '12438260', '15041760', '11403132', '14804812']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7465726280156363
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5110599058150941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7230213557955821
- Mean Citation Score: 199.34507
- Max Citation Score: 312.518
- Similarity Product: 245.12935408544536

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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