PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16121812
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["446", "207000"]

Abstract:
A device for producing an animal sound such as an elk, deer, or turkey vocalization, the device having two pivotably or vertically connected portions, one portion bearing a bent vibratable reed and the other a compressible foam lining, wherein the sound is produced by blowing air over the reed, the pitch being adjustable by pivoting the portions to be more or less parallel to each other or moving the portions vertically to be closer together or further apart. In another embodiment, there is a single reed-bearing portion, the tongue serving in place of the foam-lined portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for producing a sound similar to an animal vocalization, said device having a mouthpiece end and a distal end, the device being intended to be disposed in use between the tongue and the top of the operator's mouth, said device comprising\n a reed mounting portion having a tongue-facing surface, a throat chamber formed in said portion and recessed from said surface, said throat chamber having a mouthpiece end and a recessed surface parallel to the tongue-facing surface, said throat chamber being open at said mouthpiece end thereof and open toward the tongue when disposed in the mouth, and comprising a ramp which rises from the recessed surface of said throat chamber to the unrecessed tongue-facing surface, means for releasably securing at least one vibratable reed with a desired tautness so that it covers at least a portion of said ramp and at least a portion of the unrecessed surface, whereby the reed is in a bent configuration, means for the escape of air blown over or under said reed, at least one slot disposed in said ramp, running parallel to the run of said ramp, and extending beyond the distal end of said ramp, and communicating with said means for the escape of air, the device being dimensioned and adapted so that it may be placed on the tongue, with the tongue-facing surface facing toward the tongue, and moved by the tongue against the top of the mouth, and wherein said device, when said reed is secured therein, and the device is so disposed in the mouth, produces a sound when air is blown into it at the mouthpiece end of said throat chamber and the pitch of said sound is dependent on the tautness of said reed, the slope of said ramp, the pressure exerted by the tongue on the tongue-facing surface of the device, and the position of the device relative to the top of the mouth as a result of said pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53623
- Patent Class: 446.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15333585', '14699211', '10894932', '10894976', '11429499']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6103351444667336
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5413854063827511
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6034401706583354
- Mean Citation Score: 250.086806
- Max Citation Score: 371.42303
- Similarity Product: 314.25282429343224

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

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