PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["164", "100000"]

Abstract:
Herein disclosed is a centrifugally cast pole having a substantially uniform wall thickness along the long axis of the pole. During centrifugal casting, molten metal is poured inside a rotating, tapered mold. As chilled liquid is poured over the outside of the rotating mold, the metal forms, or paints, to the contour of the mold interior creating a metal pole. By precisely controlling casting gyrations such as the spin, travel, pitch, and yaw of the rotating mold and the calibration and physical mechanisms of the casting machine, hollow, tapered, tubular metal poles are produced with previously unknown uniformity of wall thickness. The controlling principles, designs, and mechanisms of this centrifugal casting method enable wall uniformity to extremely high tolerances. By extension, the ability to precisely control the metal volume painted inside the mold allows, as a design choice, wall thickness variation in any embodiment if so desired.

Claim (Index 1):
A hollow, tapered, cylindrical utility pole laving an outer diameter that varies along a length of the member, comprising:\n a tapered, seamless, unitary cylindrical wall made of a metallic material via centrifugal casting, wherein a first portion of the tapered cylindrical all has a first thickness, wherein a second portion of the tapered cylindrical wall has a second thickness that is different from the first thickness, wherein the first thickness of the tapered cylindrical wall is substantially constant along a majority of the length of the cylindrical wall, and wherein an interior surface of a large diameter end of the tapered cylindrical wall has a shape and dimensions that would allow an external surface of a small diameter end of a second hollow, tapered, cylindrical utility pole to be inserted into the large diameter end of the tapered cylindrical wall; and a running ring also formed by the centrifugal casting and comprising a circular or ring-shaped flange that extends radially outward from an exterior side of the large diameter end of the tapered cylindrical wall, wherein the running ring is configured such that when the tapered, cylindrical utility pole is inserted into a cylindrical pipe having a pipe bell at one end, the flange has a sufficiently small diameter such that the flange will clear the pipe bell throat and a sufficiently large diameter such that the flange will engage the bell land so that as the cylindrical pipe is rolled along an annealing furnace, the tapered, cylindrical utility pole will remain inside the cylindrical pipe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89888
- Patent Class: 164.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14633713', '13289430', '11458407', '12498803', '12140328']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7952453280427397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5285602938334102
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7685768246218068
- Mean Citation Score: 308.2766220000001
- Max Citation Score: 369.7797
- Similarity Product: 367.10322327765226

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

Dataset: test