PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16151885
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["414", "813000"]

Abstract:
Material transfer trailers including an elongate chassis, and a longitudinally extending conveyor for transferring material to a desired location, the conveyor being supported by the chassis and including a main portion mounted to the chassis, the main portion having a lower end and an upper end opposite the lower end, an extension portion including a link end moveably mounted to the upper end of the fixed portion and a discharge end opposite the link end, wherein the extension portion is configured to move between an extended position and a stowed position. In some examples, the main portion is fixedly mounted to the chassis. In some examples, the extension portion is pivotally mounted to the main portion. In some examples, the conveyor defines a void to receive a rear-mounted projection of a receiving vehicle.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of transferring material to a receiving vehicle from a material transfer trailer, the method comprising:\n storing material in a hopper of a material transfer trailer, the material transfer trailer including an elongate chassis having a front end configured to selectively couple with a towing vehicle, the hopper being mounted to the chassis and having an angled bottom and an opening running substantially along a length of the angled bottom, and a longitudinally extending conveyor including a main portion and an extension portion, the conveyor mounted to the chassis at an angle corresponding to the angled bottom of the hopper in a position to receive the material from the hopper through the opening, the main portion of the conveyor fixedly mounted to the chassis at the angle corresponding to the angled bottom of the hopper, the main portion having a lower end and an upper end, the lower end being proximate a rear end of the hopper, and the upper end being proximate the front end of the chassis, the extension portion of the conveyor including a link end pivotally mounted at only a single pivot connection to the upper end of the main portion, the extension portion further including a discharge end opposite the link end, and a single continuous conveyor belt passing around only the main portion and the extension portion of the conveyor; disposing a receiving vehicle in a receiving position adjacent the front end of the chassis of the material transfer trailer, the receiving vehicle including a storage container; moving the extension portion of the conveyor of the material transfer trailer into an extended position, such that the conveyor is extended above a rear-mounted projection of the adjacent receiving vehicle; transferring the material from the hopper of the material transfer trailer to the storage container of the receiving vehicle using the conveyor of the material transfer trailer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12921350', '15329686', '15139390', '10624820', '16130106']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8138006974885372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4749859190575218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7799192196454358
- Mean Citation Score: 192.038176
- Max Citation Score: 212.68787000000003
- Similarity Product: 173.8596048171461

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

Dataset: test