PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150147
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "538000"]

Abstract:
An actuator for a hand operated foam dispensing pump that utilizes a folding nozzle is presented. The folding nozzle of the actuator is configured so as to lock the actuator in place and prevent operation of the pump when the nozzle is folded. The actuator substantially reduces pump closure loosening (back-off) and nozzle breakage during shipping of a filled product by eliminating trigger handles or other conventional nozzle types which protrude from the side of the actuator. As such, the new actuator is particularly well-suited for use in e-commerce where the shipping of unboxed products is becoming increasingly common. The actuator is configured such that actuator depression (actuation) cannot occur when the folding nozzle is in a folded position.

Claim (Index 1):
An actuator assembly for a hand operated pump comprising:\n an actuator having a hollow body, a nozzle having an inlet end and an outlet end with a flow passage therebetween, and a closure having a hollow body; wherein the nozzle is configured to attach to the actuator and fold between an open and a closed position; wherein tile actuator is configured with a generally oval shaped perimeter having a recessed, flat rectangular front surface for receipt of the nozzle when the nozzle is in the closed position, the actuator having a closed, sloped top end and an open bottom end; wherein the actuator includes an internal, vertically oriented tube, the tube having a circular interior wall, a radially closed upper end and a radially open bottom end, wherein the tube further includes an opening in fluid communication with the flow passage of the nozzle at its inlet end; wherein the closure includes a generally oval shaped opening configured to correspond to the perimeter of the generally oval shaped actuator, wherein the actuator is slideably received within the generally oval shaped opening of the closure; means for preventing actuator depression when the nozzle is in the closed position; means for attaching the actuator to a fluid outlet of a hand operated pump; means for attaching the closure to a hand operated pump; and means for retaining the nozzle in the closed position to prevent inadvertent opening of the nozzle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15946436', '12123117', '16023224', '10276820', '10969801']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7385344477595595
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4969150312630299
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7143725061099065
- Mean Citation Score: 206.587892
- Max Citation Score: 269.03198
- Similarity Product: 217.3938669288277

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

Dataset: test