PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913973
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["473", "371000"]

Abstract:
Method of making an inventive golf ball incorporating a novel compression molded outer layer comprised of inventive first and second half-shells that are molded from preforms of extrudate, each preform created using a novel flying knife such that a cross-sectioned face of the preform has a curved depth which may be up to 20% greater than the depth of a preform created using a conventional straight edge and/or straight-faced flying knife. In one embodiment, the subassembly of the golf ball is a rubber spherical inner core, and the inventive compression molded outer layer is a rubber outer core layer. In a specific such embodiment, the rubber of the inner core and the rubber of the outer core layer differ.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of making a golf ball comprising the steps of:\n providing a length of extrudate having a width sufficient to be received within first and second half-shell molding cups; cross-sectioning the extrudate at predetermined intervals along the length while progressing the extrudate along a plane that is perpendicular to a plane of rotation of a curved flying knife and forming a plurality of preforms, each having a cross-sectioned surface that is concave and curves inward toward a posterior end of the preform a curved depth that is greater than a depth created by a straight edge flying knife;\n wherein the curved flying knife comprises:\n an elongated body defining an inner end and a distal end; the inner end being rotatably connectable to a device for cross-sectioning a length of extrudate into a plurality of preforms; \n a curved face located on the elongated body between a bladed edge and an opposing edge;\n wherein each of the bladed edge and the opposing edge co-extend from the distal end toward the inner end a predetermined length and follow a contour of the curved face; and \n wherein the curved face curves toward the extrudate while the bladed edge cross-sections the extrudate; and \n \n \n depositing first and second preforms into a golf ball component mold, loading the mold into a mold press, closing the mold press, and forming first and second half-shell molding cups under sufficient heat and pressure;\n wherein the cross-sectioned surfaces of the first and second preforms are face up in the golf ball component mold and form an inner surface of each half shell molding cup; and \n mating first and second half-shell molding cups about a subassembly under sufficient heat and pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98438
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12394942', '12048665', '12056457', '12694576', '12883253']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5963114676246568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4829051525450871
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5849708361166999
- Mean Citation Score: 218.28631600000003
- Max Citation Score: 223.91211
- Similarity Product: 184.6616913059968

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