PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16195921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["081", "003400"]

Abstract:
A bottle cap opener and gripper made of resilient materials and used for bottle cap removal. It is essentially a circular configuration with a predetermined thickness and has a rough surface on its circumference for improved grip. The top surface is flat and ready for identification or advertisement. The bottom has a series of step cut gripping rings to engage and hold the bottle cap in a fixed position as the device is turned and the cap is twisted and removed from the bottle. The relationship of the center grip and outer circumference provides a leverage by a radius between the turning force at the circumference by the operator and the twist force transferred to the bottle cap. The radius serves to multiply the twist force with the radius of the device and thereby turn the cap easier than by just the operator gripping the cap alone.

Claim (Index 1):
A bottle cap opening/gripping device ( 30 ) made of a resilient and durable material and is comprised of a group of features:\n (a) a circumference ( 42 ) for a given diameter ( 43 ), the circumference having a circumference surface ( 42 A), a surface grip and a chamfer ( 41 ) on circumference edges; (b) a predetermined, set thickness ( 41 T); (c) a top surface ( 47 ) for logo, advertisement; (d) a bottom ( 48 ) having a series of step cut gripping rings ( 50 ); and (e) a center aperture/through hole ( 45  from the top surface ( 47 ) through to the bottom ( 48 ); wherein an operator ( 100 ) uses the device ( 30 ) and engages the top of a bottle cap ( 65 ) with the series of step cut gripping rings ( 50 ) and thereby holding the cap ( 65 ) while the operator ( 100 ) then can twist the diameter ( 43 ) of the device ( 30 ) by holding a circumference surface ( 42 A) which permits the device to grip the bottle cap at gripping rings and to multiply the twist force with the radius of the device and thereby turn the cap ( 65 ) more easily than by just the hand ( 105 ) of the operator ( 100 ) gripping the cap ( 65 ) alone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93671
- Patent Class: 81.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11374174', '10641971', '11881545', '13219924', '11368125']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.774518734981557
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4861503979161929
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7456819012750207
- Mean Citation Score: 207.362148
- Max Citation Score: 227.2763
- Similarity Product: 158.88071019083264

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

Dataset: test