PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996159
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["116", "284000"]

Abstract:
A bulk material storage bin has an upright wall supporting a plurality of vertically spaced indicators providing a person with visual information regarding the level of the bulk material in the bin. The indicators have bright color and dark color surfaces that are selectively displayed to provide a person with information of the level of bulk material in the bin. An actuator located in the bin cooperates with a motion transmission apparatus to move visual members to an ON position displaying the bright color when the bulk material engages the actuator and to an OFF position displaying the dark color when the actuator is free of bulk material. The motion transmission apparatus includes a rod movably retained on an O-ring held on a mount device secured to the side wall of the bin. A yoke supporting an endless flexible member mounted on the rod is connected to the visual members whereby movement of the rod moves the visual members between the ON and OFF positions.

Claim (Index 21):
An indicator for providing information regarding the level of material located in a bin having a side wall and a chamber for holding the material comprising:\n a housing having an internal chamber, at least one visual member located within the internal chamber of the housing, said visual member having a first portion and a second portion spaced from the first portion, a first color on the first portion of the visual member, said second portion of the visual member having a second color, said first color and second color being visually contrasting colors, a light transparent member joined to the housing enclosing the visual member within the chamber of the housing, an actuator locatable within the chamber of the bin for movement from a first position to a second position by material in the bin and the second position to the first position, a motion transmission apparatus operably connecting the actuator to the visual member operable to rotate the visual member in response to movement of the actuator by material in the bin, said motion transmission apparatus including a sleeve having an axial passage connected to the visual member, an axle mounted on the housing extended through the passage of the sleeve for rotatably mounting the sleeve on the axle, said visual member being rotatably mounted on the axle, an endless flexible member, said flexible member including a middle portion thereof wound around the sleeve, a first end portion and a second end portion, a yoke having a first arm and a second arm located adjacent the sleeve, said first end portion of the flexible member being retained on the second arm, said second end portion of the endless flexible member being retained on the second arm, a member connecting the yoke to the actuator and said member, yoke and flexible member being movable in response to movement of the actuator to rotate the sleeve and visual member connected to the sleeve whereby the bright color and dark color second portion of the visual member are selectively located adjacent the transparent member and visible by a person located remote from the bin to provide the person with visual information concerning the level of material in the bin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17949
- Patent Class: 116.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14820706', '13781342', '11934038', '13781406', '12505064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6941126326437785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5513555707136514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6798369264507658
- Mean Citation Score: 230.181878
- Max Citation Score: 465.79807
- Similarity Product: 426.949561842283

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