PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152069
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["222", "480000"]

Abstract:
A container and container closures are provided as well as methods of dispensing product from the container are provided. The container closure includes a pair of cover members. One cover member includes sifting apertures and the other cover member is imperforate to prevent dispensing product. The container closure may also include a measuring volume that can be used to measure a predetermined amount of product to be dispensed. Sifting and bulk dispensing may occur for either product dispensed directly from the container or when dispensing the predetermined volume of product.

Claim (Index 39):
A container closure comprising:\n a base component having an aperture extending therethrough; a first cover member including a body portion defining an outer surface and an inner surface that are generally planar and parallel to one another, the inner and outer surfaces being offset from one another, a plurality of apertures extend entirely through the body portion, the plurality of apertures extend through the body portion in a tapered configuration such that the aperture gets smaller in cross-section when moving from the inner surface toward the outer surface; a first hinge hingedly attaching the first cover member for pivoting motion relative to the base component, the first cover member being pivotable through the first hinge between a first position wherein the first cover member covers the aperture in the base component with the plurality of the apertures in fluid communication with the aperture in the base component and a second position wherein the first cover member is pivoted away from the aperture in the base component, the outer surface of the body portion facing away from the aperture in the base component when the first cover member is in the first position; a second cover member being imperforate and including a plurality of plugs extending from an inner side of the second cover; and a second hinge hingedly attaching the second cover member for pivoting motion relative to the base component between a third position that covers the first cover member and the aperture in the base component and a fourth position wherein the second cover member is pivoted away from the first cover member, the plugs of the second cover member aligned with and closing the plurality of apertures in the first cover member when the second cover member is in the third position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82692
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12391121', '13429747', '14588733', '15257435', '12832809']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7839471848625575
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.482779443062364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7538304106825382
- Mean Citation Score: 206.652424
- Max Citation Score: 209.74806
- Similarity Product: 159.05759362154242

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