PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922487
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["405", "184000"]

Abstract:
A pipe pulling technique where an adaptor is attached to the end of the pipe prior to the pipe being pulled underground, for example through a drilled hole. Attaching the adaptor to the pipe end prior to the pipe being pulled underground is faster and reduces danger to workers compared to the conventional process of attaching the adaptor to the end of the pipe after the pipe has been pulled underground.

Claim (Index 10):
A pull head that is cooperable with an adaptor attached to a pipe to pull the pipe underground from a first location to a second location, comprising:\n a first shell piece and a second shell piece, the first and second shell pieces are hinged to one another by two hinges that are spaced from one another, the first and second shell pieces are pivotable relative to one another between an open position and a closed position at which the first and second shell pieces surround the adaptor; the first and second shell pieces include an interior surface that defines a shoulder when the first and second shell pieces are at the closed position, the shoulder is positioned on the interior surface to be located behind a flange on the adaptor when the first and second shell pieces are in the closed position; and a pull eye connected to the first and second shell pieces, the pull eye is connectable to a pull line that applies a pulling force to the pull head.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15010194', '15493493', '15693006', '11879345', '15348343']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7486387537186499
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5251633044900748
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7262912087957923
- Mean Citation Score: 227.466604
- Max Citation Score: 350.75705
- Similarity Product: 301.1983114533126

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