PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16280204
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["239", "525000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates to a fluid nozzle such as a garden hose nozzle of the type having a trigger lock for the nozzle trigger handle. The garden hose nozzle will lock the trigger handle if the nozzle is accidentally dropped while in use in dispensing water to thereby prevent the accidentally squirting of water from the nozzle when the handle hits a surface. The nozzle trigger handle has a locking arm mounted through the trigger handle which is spring biased to raise the locking arm when the handle is released.

Claim (Index 1):
A fluid nozzle having a locking handle comprising:\n a nozzle body having a fluid inlet at one end and a fluid outlet at the other end thereof, and a fluid passageway therebetween, said body having a hand grip portion; a valve positioned in said nozzle body passageway for opening and closing said passageway to the passage of fluid, said valve having a valve stem extending from said body; a trigger handle hinged to said body, said trigger handle being coupled to said valve stem for actuating said valve upon moving of said trigger handle to open and close said valve to control the flow of fluid through said passageway, said trigger handle having an opening therethrough; a trigger handle locking arm having two ends and an elongated opening therethrough, said locking arm extending through said trigger handle opening and being movably pinned thereto through said elongated opening therein, said locking arm having one end slidable on said nozzle body hand grip portion into a hand grip lock on said nozzle body hand grip portion and said locking arm having a spring biasing said locking arm and attached trigger handle to close said valve when said trigger handle is released and to slide said locking arm one end into said locking arm hand grip lock to prevent trigger handle movement and the opening of said valve to the flow of fluid until said locking arm is manually released from said locked position; whereby releasing said nozzle trigger handle will lock said trigger handle against accidental actuation of said nozzle valve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9375
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15140267', '11166517', '11150074', '15130711', '11280852']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8132540332630604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4691979382059046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.778848423757345
- Mean Citation Score: 186.848708
- Max Citation Score: 216.04225
- Similarity Product: 171.12656667509674

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

Dataset: test