PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748129
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["405", "146000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a machine for tunnelling in rock. The machine includes a pilot drill assembly for drilling a series of interfering parallel holes or a pilot hole into and generally perpendicular into a rock face and a blast hole drill assembly for drilling a series of blasting holes around the pilot hole or previous blast hole. The machine further includes a charge handling and loading assembly for loading the first series of holes with propellant charges and an ignitor system for igniting the charges. Included further is a rock clearing means for removing the blast rock from the blast face and a rock pick for clearing and picking the floor, roof or walls to provide access for the machine into the tunnel and a mobility assembly for moving the machine forward. Also included is a control console provided with control means for controlling the pilot drill assembly, blast hole drill assembly, charge handling and loading assembly, ignitor system, rock clearing means, the rock pick, a measure system for gas detection and management, a rock stress measure system and recording system.

Claim (Index 5):
A rock tunnelling machine as claimed in  claim 1  wherein the rock clearing means includes a lower and forward extending pair of bucket type conveyors arranged on arms in a V-formation for drawing in any rocks on the floor of the tunnel in front of the machine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58667
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14126022', '14125982', '12520347', '13261634', '12810092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.785525207838417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5063246178507865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7576051488396539
- Mean Citation Score: 242.451906
- Max Citation Score: 262.1194
- Similarity Product: 180.8467462177992

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