PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15780715
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["222", "470000"]

Abstract:
A dispensing device that attaches to a container has: (a) a hollow tube with opposing entrance and exit ends with a connector on the entrance end and a wall defining a flow channel; (b) a sleeve with opposing entrance and exit ends slidably extending over the hollow tube; (c) a sealing gasket between and contacting the hollow tube and sleeve; (d) a trigger mount rigidly attached to the hollow tube or container; (e) a trigger hingedly connected to the trigger mount and operatively connected to the sleeve; (f) an elastic element between the trigger and the hollow tube and/or container; wherein the exit end is closed and there is an opening through the hollow tube wall proximate to the exit end; the sleeve has an open dispensing end, reduces in inside diameter at dispensing end and engages the hollow tube when closed and disengages from the hollow tube when open.

Claim (Index 4):
The article of  claim 1 , wherein the outside diameter of the sleeve is smaller proximate to the dispensing end of the sleeve relative to the average outside diameter of the sleeve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35616
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15780691', '13982391', '13982495', '11268445', '14424105']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7807529529642023
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5471100184131381
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.757388659509096
- Mean Citation Score: 286.9342620000001
- Max Citation Score: 418.61978
- Similarity Product: 290.58473348871826

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

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