PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996888
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["220", "231000"]

Abstract:
A sheet metal lid has a rim portion removably secured and sealed to a container and the lid includes a vent button having a top wall portion surrounded by a side wall portion and an outwardly projecting flange portion. The flange portion of the button has a short arcuate score or shear line extending substantially into the sheet metal, and additional score lines extend into the flange portion at lesser depths to protect a coating on the inner surface of the lid. A resilient sealant material may be bonded to the inner surface of the vent button, and the opposing sheet metal portions of the score line form a small gap for releasing a vacuum or pressure from the container in response to a controlled downward pressure on the top wall portion of the vent button.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet metal lid having a vertical axis and including a top wall and a peripheral rim portion adapted to be secured to a container receiving a product and having vacuum or pressure, the lid comprising\n a portion of the top wall defining a vent button having a top wall portion, a surrounding side wall portion with an outwardly projecting flange portion extending around the side wall portion, a portion of the vent button having an arcuate shear line extending substantially into the thickness of the sheet metal forming the vent button, the portion of the vent button having the shear line being compressed at the shear line to provide for obtaining a predetermined downward pressure required on the top wall portion of the vent button to separate opposing portions of the sheet metal at the shear line, a resilient sealant material bonded to an inner surface of the vent button and having a portion overlapping the arcuate shear line, and the portion of the sealant material being effective to form a narrow gap along the shear line in response to depressing the top wall portion of the vent button for releasing vacuum or pressure from the container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95833
- Patent Class: 220.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15186997', '15696204', '11444463', '15124408', '14075622']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8297558839158979
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5337462515607994
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8001549206803881
- Mean Citation Score: 232.669336
- Max Citation Score: 399.67963
- Similarity Product: 308.18156927584346

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