PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044377
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["042", "015000"]

Abstract:
A weapon for firing cased telescoped (CT) ammunition includes a barrel, a chamber member and a carrier assembly. The chamber member defines a chamber for a CT round for firing, and translates between a firing position aligned with the barrel and an ejection/loading position. The chamber member is spring-biased toward the firing position. The carrier assembly carries the firing pin and (1) performs a recoil in which a carrier and rammer move rearward from a battery position to bring the next CT round into a ramming position and to move the chamber member from the firing position to the ejection/loading position, and (2) performs a counter-recoil to return to the battery position and cause the rammer to push the next CT round into the chamber. The chamber member is released for biased return to the firing position for a next firing cycle.

Claim (Index 1):
A weapon for firing cased telescoped (CT) ammunition rounds in quick succession, comprising:\n a barrel; a chamber member that defines a chamber configured to hold a CT round for firing from the weapon, the chamber member moving between a firing position in which the chamber member is aligned with the barrel for firing the CT round and an ejection/loading position in which the chamber member is not aligned with the barrel for ejecting a spent CT round and receiving a next CT round, the chamber member being biased toward the firing position; and a carrier assembly coupled with the barrel and the chamber member, the carrier assembly being configured and operative in a single trigger-initiated firing cycle to (1) perform a recoil in which a carrier and fixed rammer of the carrier assembly move rearward from a battery position to bring the next CT round into a ramming position and to move the chamber member from the firing position to the ejection/loading position in line with the next CT round, and (2) perform a subsequent counter-recoil in which a firing pin of the carrier assembly is returned to the battery position and the fixed rammer pushes the next CT round into the chamber as the chamber member is held in the ejection/loading position, the counter-recoil ending with release of the chamber member for biased return to the firing position for a next trigger-initiated firing cycle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64407
- Patent Class: 42.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16044384', '16044035', '14658571', '10825516', '15852091']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.78796230051618
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.567120016107613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7658780720753233
- Mean Citation Score: 286.70784
- Max Citation Score: 485.4879
- Similarity Product: 419.2593134543537

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