PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16248354
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["134", "022120"]

Abstract:
A nozzle for water jet equipment and a method of use thereof. The nozzle has a body including a base with a shaft extending outwardly therefrom. The shaft is inserted through a bore of a sleeve that rotatable about the shaft. The base and shaft define a bore therein. At least one opening is defined in the shaft and one or more grooves are milled into the shaft's exterior surface. Each opening places the body's bore in fluid communication with one of the grooves and the sleeve's bore. Water flowing through the body's bore will flow through each opening, into the associated groove and into a space between the shaft and sleeve. The shaft terminates in a conical section usable as a battering ram to break up blockages in pipes during cleaning operations.

Claim (Index 1):
A nozzle for engagement with a washing arm; said nozzle comprising:\n a body including:\n a base having a first end and a second end and having a longitudinal axis extending therebetween; said second end of the base being adapted to be engaged with an end of a washing arm; \n a shaft having a first section that extends longitudinally outwardly from the first end of the base; and \n a sleeve mounted for rotation about the first section of the shaft; \n wherein the base defines a bore that originates in the second end and extends for a distance within the first section of the shaft; wherein an exterior surface of the first section of the shaft defines at least one opening therein that is in fluid communication with the bore; wherein the exterior surface of the first section of the shaft defines one or more grooves therein and the at least one opening is in fluid communication with one of the one or more grooves; and wherein at least a portion of one or more of the base, the shaft and the sleeve is fabricated from a material containing one or more of tungsten carbide, titanium carbide, carbide with a cobalt binder, carbide with a nickel binder, diamond, silicon diamond, and a ceramic material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87179
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15876415', '12821364', '15170077', '13406014', '12879466']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8215671350853784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5278447409681717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7921948956736578
- Mean Citation Score: 202.57179
- Max Citation Score: 354.8282
- Similarity Product: 293.9614280895472

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