PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059637
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["405", "154100"]

Abstract:
A pipe extraction machine can be used to remove a buried pipe from the ground. The machine has a carriage with jaws that grip the buried pipe. While gripped, the carriage moves relative to a support structure to pull the pipe out of the ground. Jaws are actuated by rotating clamp plates and maintained in opposition by static horizontal grooves. The jaws remain opposed and aligned during rotation of the clamp plates. A pipe shear may remove the pipe one piece at a time. A pipe puller can be used at the back end of the pipe being removed to simultaneously install a new pipe along the same path.

Claim (Index 1):
A system comprising:\n a pipe having a first end, a second end, and a middle section, the middle section being underground; and an apparatus comprising:\n a support structure; and \n a carriage movable relative to the support structure comprising:\n a pipe clamp assembly having a first jaw and a second jaw disposed on opposite sides of the first end of the pipe; \n wherein the first jaw may be moved toward the second jaw into a closed position, such that the jaws place a crushing force on the first end of the pipe when in the closed position; and \n \n a cylinder disposed between the support structure and the carriage for providing a thrust force to the pipe when the jaws are in the closed position; \n wherein the crushing force is more than five times greater than the thrust force.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72059
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13474021', '11785446', '11117655', '13520249', '14563678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.73120134241343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.468356179127714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7049168260848584
- Mean Citation Score: 148.26686
- Max Citation Score: 173.29402
- Similarity Product: 135.0744472675824

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

Dataset: test