PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137716
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["404", "072000"]

Abstract:
A modified chip spreader is adapted to be used in a chip sealing train including a chip supply dump truck and an asphalt composition supply truck. The modified chip spreader is a self-propelled vehicle that has a receiving hopper on its front end for receiving stone chips from the chip supply dump truck, a spreader assembly on its rear end and a conveyor assembly for conveying the stone chips from the receiving hopper to the spreader assembly. The modified chip spreader also includes a spray assembly that is in fluid communication with an outlet line from the asphalt composition supply truck, which spray assembly is adapted to dispense an asphalt composition onto the surface of a roadway in front of the spreader assembly. The spreader assembly dispenses the stone chips onto the newly applied asphalt composition on the surface of the roadway.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for carrying out a chip sealing operation on a roadway, said method comprising:\n (a) providing a chip supply dump truck having a front end, a rear end, and a dump bed that is adapted to carry stone chips, said dump bed being adapted to be raised so that stone chips carried therein will slide out of the dump bed; (b) providing an asphalt composition supply truck that is adapted to carry an asphalt composition, said asphalt composition supply truck having a front end, a rear end, and an outlet line through which the asphalt composition may be discharged; (c) providing a self-propelled modified chip spreader which:\n (i) has a front end; \n (ii) has a rear end; \n (iii) is adapted to be driven along the roadway with its front end leading in a chip spreading direction; \n (iv) includes a receiving hopper on its front end for receiving the stone chips from the raised dump bed of the chip supply dump truck; \n (v) includes a spreader assembly on its rear end which is adapted to dispense the stone chips onto the roadway; \n (vi) includes a conveyor assembly for conveying the stone chips from the receiving hopper to the spreader assembly; \n (vii) includes a spray assembly that is in fluid communication with the outlet line of the asphalt composition supply truck and is adapted to dispense the asphalt composition received from the asphalt composition supply truck onto the surface of the roadway in front of the spreader assembly; \n (d) driving the self-propelled modified chip spreader along the roadway in the chip spreading direction while:\n (i) raising the dump bed of the chip supply truck so that stone chips carried therein will slide out of the dump bed into the receiving hopper of the self-propelled modified chip spreader; \n (ii) discharging the asphalt composition through the outlet line of the asphalt composition supply truck into the spray assembly of the self-propelled modified chip spreader; \n (iii) operating the spray assembly of the self-propelled modified chip spreader to dispense the asphalt composition from the asphalt composition supply truck onto the surface of the roadway in front of the spreader assembly; \n (iv) operating the conveyor assembly to convey the stone chips from the receiving hopper to the spreader assembly; \n (v) operating the spreader assembly to dispense the stone chips onto the roadway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46667
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15855403', '14881794', '15711340', '14975017', '15921607']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7224162605522367
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807451128215455
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6982491457791676
- Mean Citation Score: 211.261832
- Max Citation Score: 221.84712
- Similarity Product: 175.84605834875106

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

Dataset: test