PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["024", "306000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates to a protective buffer strap ( 10 ). More specifically, the invention relates to a protective buffer strap ( 10 ) capable of being strapped onto one or more articles ( 100, 200 ) to be closely restrained, thereby to prevent such articles ( 100, 200 ) from rubbing up against one another and causing damage, especially to surface finishes. The protective buffer strap ( 10 ) includes a strap ( 32 ) and an elongate body ( 12 ) from which the strap ( 32 ) extends, the elongate body ( 12 ) having a spine ( 26 ) and a plurality of projections ( 28 ) graduating lengths extending from the spine ( 26 ). The protective buffer strap ( 10 ) is configurable between an unwound condition and a wound condition. In the unwound condition, free ends ( 28 A) of the projections ( 28 ) are spaced from one another along the spine ( 26 ). In the wound condition, the elongate body ( 12 ) and/or strap ( 32 ) is deformed into a closed loop form with the free ends ( 28 A) of the protections ( 28 ) jointly defining at least a portion of a bore ( 36 ) for receiving a first article ( 100 ) therein, which bore ( 36 ) is eccentric relative to the closed loop form. Furthermore, in the wound condition, the strap ( 32 ) extends about the closed loop form and/or the closed loop form and a second article ( 200 ) receivable between the strap ( 32 ) and the spine ( 26 ) thereby to retain the protective buffer in the wound condition such that in use, the distance between the first article ( 100 ) received within the bore ( 36 ) and the second article ( 200 ) is variable by rotting the closed loop form about the first article ( 100 ).

Claim (Index 2):
A protective buffer strap according to  claim 1  further including a means of securing the strap in a wound state about the closed loop form thereby to secure the elongate body in the wound condition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.11712
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15044127', '10917256', '12076515', '12165823', '15889448']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.716350049758078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4464202641201231
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6893570711942826
- Mean Citation Score: 162.23932000000005
- Max Citation Score: 167.418
- Similarity Product: 122.26632492220402

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

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