PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055885
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["004", "255110"]

Abstract:
A toilet plunger is provided having an improved skirt and reinforced handle portion to prevent the collapse of the plunger and to facilitate a negative pressure being extended against an obstruction in a toilet.

Claim (Index 1):
A toilet plunger comprising:\n a bottom skirt  20 , skirt  20  having a thickness at a outer circumferential edge less than a thickness of the skirt at an inner-circumferential edge, a lower skirt surface defining a plane which is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the plunger; a plurality of at least three bellows, a first bellow  30 c  secured to an upper surface of skirt  20 , a second bellow  30 b  position above and attached to the first bellow  30 c , and a third bellow  30 a , positioned above and attached to the second bellow  30 b , an interior space defined by the plurality of bellows defining a plunger volume; a handle securing region  40  positioned on top of the plurality of bellows and having a cylinder  48  defining an inner cylinder surface  49  having a plurality of threads adapted for receiving a handle and an outer cylinder wall  47 ; a plurality of reinforcing ribs  42  having a vertical wall  45  attached to an outer cylinder wall  47 , each reinforcing rib  42  further defining a bottom wall  46  supported on an upper surface of the bellow top wall  50 , each reinforcing rib  42  further defining an edge wall  43  that extends from a circumferential edge of the bellow top wall  50  to an upper edge of cylinder  48 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12133041', '12754101', '13889539', '14224722', '10511782']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7748154706303864
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4791422140835074
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7452481449756985
- Mean Citation Score: 145.339584
- Max Citation Score: 153.86342
- Similarity Product: 105.38900540652511

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

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