PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018719
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["285", "242000"]

Abstract:
A garden hose with an outer flexible sheath of spirally wound and linked turns of sheet material, an inner tube of flexible polymer inside the sheath and end couplers with nipples press fit into ends of the tube and connector mechanisms connecting the couplers to the outer sheath. Each connector mechanism has inner and outer press fit shells at the end of the sheath, with flared ends separated by a washer.

Claim (Index 6):
The garden hose of  claim 1  further comprising a hollow sleeve having a body extending around the first connector and one end fixed to the first coupler, the sleeve tapering outwardly away from the first coupler to leave room for the hose body to bend freely but within the sleeve near the first coupler.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70455
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15638057', '13289447', '15794662', '13690670', '13859511']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7749126911041577
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4575605804067885
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7431774800344209
- Mean Citation Score: 242.816004
- Max Citation Score: 441.2315
- Similarity Product: 406.5740889790058

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

Dataset: test