PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059637
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["405", "154100"]

Abstract:
A pipe extraction machine can be used to remove a buried pipe from the ground. The machine has a carriage with jaws that grip the buried pipe. While gripped, the carriage moves relative to a support structure to pull the pipe out of the ground. Jaws are actuated by rotating clamp plates and maintained in opposition by static horizontal grooves. The jaws remain opposed and aligned during rotation of the clamp plates. A pipe shear may remove the pipe one piece at a time. A pipe puller can be used at the back end of the pipe being removed to simultaneously install a new pipe along the same path.

Claim (Index 30):
A method of treating a pipe comprising:\n positioning the apparatus of  claim 15  such that the pipe is situated between the first and second jaws; rotating the plate until the pipe is gripped between the first and second jaws; and moving the carriage relative to the support structure while the pipe remains gripped by the jaws.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72059
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13474021', '11785446', '11117655', '13520249', '14563678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7293282385861666
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774420869197145
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7041396234195214
- Mean Citation Score: 148.26686
- Max Citation Score: 173.29402
- Similarity Product: 124.84014016344786

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