PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042435
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["105", "377070"]

Abstract:
A manway assembly for a railroad tank car features a nozzle defining a central opening and having a sidewall, a cover, a hinge attaching the cover to the nozzle, and a seal assembly to seal the cover to the nozzle. The seal assembly may include a circumferential seal and a circumferential seal channel. The circumferential seal may include a top portion, a bottom portion opposite the top portion, and a side portion between the top portion and the bottom portion. An underside edge portion of the cover may be provided with the circumferential seal channel. The circumferential seal may be positioned within the circumferential seal channel. The circumferential seal may have a C-shaped cross section and may be positioned in the circumferential seal channel such that the top portion of the seal is seated against a top wall of the circumferential seal channel and the bottom portion of the seal is seated against a circumferential ledge of the nozzle.

Claim (Index 18):
The manway assembly of  claim 13 , wherein the nozzle includes a sidewall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.03571
- Patent Class: 105.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15685258', '15017287', '14553610', '13543995', '14791039']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8160680151181368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.573215614814274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7917827750877505
- Mean Citation Score: 407.893754
- Max Citation Score: 557.181
- Similarity Product: 407.44414577400687

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