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 12):
A method of cleaning an interior of a pipe using water jet equipment; said method comprising:\n providing a nozzle comprising a body having a base with a first end and a second end and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween; a shaft having a first section that extends longitudinally outwardly from the first end of the base; and a sleeve mounted for rotation about the first section of the shaft; engaging the second end of the base with an end of a washing arm of the water jet equipment; connecting the washing arm to a remote water source; defining at least one aperture in the sleeve; placing the at least one aperture in fluid communication with a bore defined by the sleeve; inserting the nozzle into a bore of a pipe to be cleaned; directing water outward from the at least one aperture and into the bore of the pipe; moving one of the sleeve relative to the nozzle and the nozzle relative to the washing arm as a result of directing the water out of the at least one aperture; and clearing away a quantity of clogged material from the interior of the bore of the pipe using the water directed out of the at least one aperture.

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): 0.8213999711863901
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5271613571953073
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7919761097872818
- Mean Citation Score: 202.57179
- Max Citation Score: 354.8282
- Similarity Product: 312.28865979425905

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

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