PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["030", "090100"]

Abstract:
This invention relates to a tool for stripping a surrounding layer from a sheathed cable. A tool for stripping a surrounding layer from an elongate electrical cable of substantially circular cross-sectional shape comprises a tool body having opposed jaws; a cable-receiving channel defined by formations in each of the jaws, the channel being configured to accommodate the end portion of a cable to be stripped with the formations fitting closely against the surrounding layer of the cable; and a cutting blade mounted in one of the jaws and having a cutting end positioned in the channel to penetrate the layer to a pre-set depth. The cutting end of the cutting blade has a cutting edge defined by facets of the blade disposed at an angle to the axis of the channel thereby to sever a helical strip of the surrounding layer from the end portion of a cable received in the channel on rotation of the tool around the cable. The jaws are resiliently separable and move away from each other from an initial position to allow the cable-receiving channel to accommodate therein the end portion of a cable of a diameter greater than the size of the channel when the jaws are in the initial position, to ensure the formations fit closely against the surrounding layer to ensure the pre-set depth of cut is delivered into the layer.

Claim (Index 14):
A tool as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein an aperture is formed through a side face of the tool to communicate with the cutting end of the cutting blade whereby a severed surrounding layer cut from a cable may leave the cable-receiving channel through the aperture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49474
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11702407', '11058787', '10972627', '14804450', '10972634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8419691813215368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782000629403776
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8055922694834208
- Mean Citation Score: 213.22675400000003
- Max Citation Score: 227.11836
- Similarity Product: 171.5148237341237

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