PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["414", "745400"]

Abstract:
A rod handling assembly  10  has a surface engagement mechanism  12  capable of engaging an exposed surface of a drill rod R and a holding mechanism  14  coupled to the surface engagement mechanism  12.  The system  10  and more particularly the mechanisms  12  and  14  engage and hold the rod R from a location radially adjacent a circumferential surface of the rod R inboard of its opposite ends, rather than from an end of the rod R. The surface engagement mechanism  12  is a distributed mechanism having two parts  12 a  and  12 b  that act at axially spaced locations on the rod R. The holding mechanism  14  is located and operates on the rod R between these axially spaced locations. The surface engagement mechanism  12  initially operates to engage the surface of the rod R which may for example be lying on a rod tray, to enable the rod to be lifted from a tray. Thereafter the holding mechanism  14  is operable to support and hold the rod.

Claim (Index 17):
The rod handling assembly according to  claim 16  comprising one or more springs arranged to bias the at least one claw structure to the second position, and wherein the actuator operates against the bias of the one or more spring to move the at least one claw structure to the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30263
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13887495', '15327363', '14891532', '14255201', '14584877']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.825608457619522
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5328640860293022
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7963340204605
- Mean Citation Score: 210.51017
- Max Citation Score: 390.39398
- Similarity Product: 322.65980948622934

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