PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932557
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["401", "098000"]

Abstract:
An applicator for a semi-solid material (e. g. lip balm) with an elastomeric material base cap has an interior tube long enough to cooperate with other structures to allow ejection of the plunger associated with the lip balm and its shaft by continued depression of the base cap. This allows easy replacement of the lip balm in the applicator when the original is used up. The applicator also has a tubular housing with interior guide hub with ribs configured and positioned to preclude spinning of the shaft of the plunger mounting the lip balm. A dispenser for flowable material (such as lotion) comprises a bellows mounted in a housing with an elastomeric material base cap at one end, and an end cap at the other end with a first part connected to the housing by screw threads, and a second part connected to the first part by a living hinge.

Claim (Index 6):
An applicator as recited in  claim 1  wherein said elastomeric material base cap is a bistable element which moves from a first stable configuration in which said semi-solid material is primarily within said housing to, after removal of said end cap and manual actuation thereof, a second stable configuration in which said semi-solid mass is substantially completely exterior of said housing, and upon further manual actuation of said elastomeric material base cap while in said second stable configuration moves to a third position whereby said plunger shaft is ejected from contact with said elastomeric base cap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95122
- Patent Class: 401.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15330500', '13254444', '15336997', '15542900', '14664658']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6601273471227135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5199555122652494
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.646110163636967
- Mean Citation Score: 223.010564
- Max Citation Score: 366.29346
- Similarity Product: 265.15824927096605

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

Dataset: test