PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872694
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["414", "621000"]

Abstract:
An opposable clamp arm of a load handling device such as a lift truck attachment. An upper clamp pad portion may have a generally planar plate as a main member and may have a load-gripping face layer. A lower clamp pad assembly has a plurality of separately replaceable wear-compensating load-contacting elements mounted interchangeably on a backing plate attached to a stabilizer member of the clamp arm. The load-contacting elements may be secured to the backing plate by retainer bars fastened to the backing plate with flanges of the retainer bars overlapping margins of the load contact elements.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of returning a worn clamp arm to a safely usable condition, comprising:\n (a) loosening a fastener, thereby loosening one of a plurality of separate individual retainer bars from a backing plate of a wear-compensating load-contacting assembly included in a lower clamp pad assembly of the clamp arm; (b) removing a first replaceable load-contact element from a first position on the backing plate where it has been held by the one of the plurality of separate individual retainer bars; (c) placing a second replaceable load-contact element into the first position on the backing plate from which the first replaceable load-contact element has been removed; (d) placing one of the plurality of separate individual retainer bars into position to hold the second replaceable load-contact element in the first position on the backing plate; and (e) tightening the fastener, thereby causing the one of the plurality of separate individual retainer bars that has been placed into position to exert pressure against the second replaceable load-contact element and thereby to hold the second replaceable load-contact element in the first position on the backing plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71186
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14528948', '13972646', '13615116', '13604553', '14923126']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8311400859967827
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877164462367931
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7967977220207838
- Mean Citation Score: 167.187742
- Max Citation Score: 199.93529
- Similarity Product: 129.5420160054451

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

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