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 8):
A system comprising:\n a pipe having a first end, a second end, and a middle section, in which the middle section is below ground; and an apparatus comprising:\n a stationary support structure; and \n a carriage movable relative to the stationary support structure comprising:\n a carriage frame; \n a pipe clamp assembly supported by the carriage frame and characterized by a first jaw and a second jaw, each of the first jaw and second jaw having a crush face parallel to the crush face of the other jaw; and \n an actuator to move the first jaw in a first direction and to move the second jaw in a second direction while maintaining the crush faces in a parallel orientation, wherein the first and second directions are directly opposite; \n \n in which the pipe is disposed within the apparatus such that the pipe is between the first jaw and the second jaw and in a crushed condition when the jaws are fully extended.

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): 0.7290030367294736
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790169416845466
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.704004427224981
- Mean Citation Score: 148.26686
- Max Citation Score: 173.29402
- Similarity Product: 123.06813685210705

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