PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972556
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["225", "004000"]

Abstract:
A dispenser is configured for use with a chain of rupturably connected elastic bands, each of the bands having an aperture. The dispenser includes a fixed convex surface and a stop element. The chain of bands is configured to be drawn over the fixed convex surface in a direction from a first side to a second side of the surface. The stop element is positioned proximate the second side of the surface and is configured for insertion into the aperture of one of the elastic bands. In another aspect, an assembly is configured for use with a chain of rupturably connected elastic bands. The chain is provided on a spool, and each of the bands has an aperture therethrough. The assembly includes a dispenser and a shaft configured to support the spool. A method is described for dispensing elastic bands from a chain of rupturably connected elastic bands.

Claim (Index 6):
The dispenser of  claim 2 , wherein the cover has an interior concave surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74138
- Patent Class: 225.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15608150', '12231394', '14906285', '15816019', '11687654']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6862497639346028
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4883749517249351
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6664622827136361
- Mean Citation Score: 149.849084
- Max Citation Score: 161.45343
- Similarity Product: 102.1541395586908

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

Dataset: test