PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16012242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["206", "315900"]

Abstract:
A dispenser for golf balls, ping pong balls, and the like has a tubular neoprene (polychloroprene) body with an inside diameter marginally less than the diameter of the ball to be held. The length of the body may be approximately three times the diameter of the ball, so that up to three balls may be conveniently stored in the body. The body includes an open insertion end whose inside diameter is equal to that of the body and into which balls are advanced into the body, and a sphincter-like dispensing end with an inside diameter less than the diameter of the balls. Squeezing the body results in urging a ball against the dispensing end to urge the dispensing end open enough to permit the ball to pass.

Claim (Index 10):
A device, comprising:\n a stretchable resilient tubular body made of a unitary piece of material; the body defining a longitudinal axis, an insertion opening and an ejection opening opposite the insertion opening, at least the ejection opening having a diameter smaller than an object insertable into the body through the insertion opening, the ejection opening being smaller than the insertion opening such that the object is retained against the ejection opening until the body is squeezed to urge the object against the ejection opening to enlarge the ejection opening to permit passage of the object out of the ejection opening; at least a first strip of elastic extending on a surface of the body around the ejection end to reinforce the ejection end, the first strip of elastic defining a semi-circle that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10769
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12990747', '11906986', '12221120', '09815397', '12799418']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7613406310064637
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4785873181534319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7330652997211605
- Mean Citation Score: 134.43498599999998
- Max Citation Score: 143.53174
- Similarity Product: 91.54825358981373

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

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