PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16163786
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["074", "60600R"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a remotely mounted gearbox breather for an irrigation machine. According to a preferred embodiment, the system of the present invention may preferably include a gearbox having a gearbox fill port and a breather line which is attached at a first end to the gearbox at the gearbox fill port using a connection assembly and at a second end to the breather assembly. According to a further preferred embodiment, the connection assembly of the present invention may preferably include a first street elbow connected at a first side to the gearbox; a first pipe extension connected to the first elbow and a second elbow; and a hose barb connected to the first end of breather line.

Claim (Index 1):
In a mechanized system having at least one span and a drive tower having at least a first supporting leg and a second supporting leg, a system comprising:\n a drive motor, wherein the drive motor is connected to a drive shaft; a gearbox, wherein the gearbox input shaft is attached to the drive shaft and the gearbox output shaft is attached to at least one drive wheel hub; wherein the gearbox further comprises a gearbox fill port; a breather line, wherein the breather line is comprised of a first end and a second end; wherein the first end of the breather line is connected to the gearbox at the gearbox fill port using a connection assembly; wherein the connection assembly is comprised of:\n a first elbow; wherein the first elbow is a street elbow; wherein the first elbow is connected at a first side to the gearbox; \n a first pipe extension; wherein the first elbow is connected at a second side to the first pipe extension; \n a second elbow, wherein the second elbow is angled in the same direction as the first supporting leg; wherein the second elbow is connected at a first side to the first pipe extension; and \n a first hose barb, wherein the first hose barb is connected on a second side of the second elbow; further wherein the hose barb is connected to the first end of the breather line; \n a breather assembly, wherein the breather assembly is comprised of:\n an angle mount, wherein the angle mount is secured to the first supporting leg; wherein the angle mount comprises a first surface and a second surface; wherein the first surface is substantially orthogonal to the second surface; wherein the second surface is secured to the first supporting leg; and \n a breather outlet, wherein the breather outlet is secured to the angle mount by a breather connection assembly; \n wherein the breather connection assembly comprises:\n a third elbow; wherein the third elbow is connected on a first side to the breather outlet; wherein the third elbow is a street elbow; \n a fourth elbow, wherein the fourth elbow is connected on a first side to the third elbow; wherein the fourth elbow is connected on a second side to the first surface; and \n a second hose barb; wherein the hose barb is connected at a first end to the first surface of the angle amount; wherein the second hose barb is connected at a second end to the breather line; \n wherein the breather line is secured to the first supporting leg using at least one snap clip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52
- Patent Class: 74.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13939084', '12313888', '11827328', '13211952', '13211164']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7517063823099247
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4522283556557482
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7217585796445071
- Mean Citation Score: 145.638272
- Max Citation Score: 155.84163999999996
- Similarity Product: 105.23517822062963

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test