PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947066
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["482", "093000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates to an ergonomic strap for weight lifting and fitness exercises, comprising a first strap for encircling a wrist, a second soft strap, facing the wrist, attached to the first strap, a third strap incorporating a Velcro fabric, attached externally to the first strap and a fourth strap secured to the first and third straps under an inclination of α45 degrees; such an inclination precludes the portion of the fourth strap, facing a palm, during wrapping around a weight lifting bar, to form several consecutive loops, so that a succeeding loop does not overlap a preceding loop, thereby a helical wrapping is resulting; i.e. the inclination of the fourth strap at α45 degrees, prevents a part of the fourth strap that is closest to the wrist, from overlapping itself.

Claim (Index 1):
An ergonomic strap for weight lifting and fitness exercises, designed for right and for left hand, a right hand design being a mirror image of a left hand design and, comprising, in combination,\n a first strap made of a durable and flexible material with one top rough surface and one bottom rough surface and having a length suitable to form a loop encompassing a wrist of a user and to extend somewhat beyond; a rigid buckle throughout which one end portion of said first strap is inserted and then folded back upon itself and stitched; a second strap made of a soft material and constituting an internal, cushioning component of said ergonomic strap; said second strap having a width commensurate with a width of said first strap and a length for enabling to circumferentially surround and directly contact the wrist; said second strap being superposed on said first strap and stitched together; a third strap, basically congruent with said first strap, starting in proximity of said rigid buckle and extending along said first strap; said third strap being superimposed on said first strap, said third strap and said first strap being stitched together at their extremities; said third strap being constituted by a fabric strip with hooks and loops (VELCRO\u2122) and includes a first, relatively long zone starting in proximity of said rigid buckle and formed by loops, followed by a second, relatively short zone formed by hooks; said third strap, being constituted by said fabric strip with hooks and loops, is used to keep said ergonomic strap secured to the wrist during use, or assembled during storage; and a fourth strap for wrapping in a helical manner about a weight lifting bar, thus covering a zone commensurate with a width of a palm of a usual user and being made of a durable and flexible material with rough, opposite/external sides; said fourth strap having one end inserted between and stitched to said first and said third straps; said fourth strap being so positioned with respect to said first strap as to be, during a spiral wounding about said weight lifting bar, easily engageable by a thumb and a juxtapositioned index finger of a user, a position which corresponds to an inclination of \u03b145 degrees of said fourth strap with respect to said first strap; such an inclination precludes the portion of said fourth strap, that faces a palm of a user, during wrapping around said weight lifting bar, to form several consecutive loops, so that a succeeding loop does not overlap a preceding loop, thereby a helical wrapping is resulting; said inclination of fourth strap at \u03b145 degrees, instead of a usual inclination at 90 degrees, prevents a part of said fourth strap that is closest to the wrist, from overlapping itself over the first loop when wrapped around the weight lifting bar; due to a rough contact between the loops, namely by said one of said pair of rough opposite sides and a weight lifting bar, an enhanced friction engagement occurs; simultaneously, said another one of said pair of rough opposite sides, which is in direct contact with the palm of a user, enhances a handgrip; and a thin, narrow, elastic band, being transversely positioned on said bottom rough surface of said first strap and having extremities attached to said first strap, is situated in a zone corresponding to an intersection of said long zone and said short zone; when said ergonomic strap is not in use and already assembled, an end of said fourth strap is inserted through and secured in a space available between said thin, narrow, elastic band and said bottom rough surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08451
- Patent Class: 482.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11059230', '14823948', '15013960', '11564118', '10166502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6010379398834805
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4493312352444725
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5858672694195797
- Mean Citation Score: 134.03377399999997
- Max Citation Score: 142.49605
- Similarity Product: 111.96603795608875

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