PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "667000"]

Abstract:
A carriage for a lift truck arranged to provide for both lateral shifting and tilting of attachments such as forklift forks, in which an outer frame of the carriage is supported by a side-shifter cylinder-and-piston assembly incorporated in an inner frame, and in which the outer frame can be tilted with respect to the inner frame, about a laterally-extending central axis of the side-shifter cylinder-and-piston assembly.

Claim (Index 1):
A carriage for a lift truck, comprising:\n (a) an inner frame adapted to be mounted on a lift truck mast for vertical movement along the mast; (b) an outer frame supported by the inner frame; (c) a side-shifter mechanism arranged to move the outer frame laterally with respect to the inner frame; (d) a tilt mechanism arranged to tilt the outer frame with respect to the inner frame, about a laterally-extending tilt axis; (e) wherein the inner frame includes a transverse structural member that defines a side-shifter hydraulic cylinder having a central axis extending transversely with respect to the carriage; (f) wherein there is a side-shifter piston rod fitted in the side-shifter hydraulic cylinder and movable transversely with respect to the carriage in the side-shifter hydraulic cylinder, and wherein an outer end of the side-shifter piston rod is securely interconnected with a side member of the outer frame; (g) wherein the outer frame is attached to the inner frame and supported with respect to the inner frame by the presence of the side-shifter piston rod within the side-shifter hydraulic cylinder; (h) wherein the outer frame can be moved laterally with respect to the inner frame by movement of the side-shifter piston rod longitudinally within the side-shifter hydraulic cylinder; (i) wherein the central axis of the side-shifter hydraulic cylinder is the tilt axis; and (j) wherein the tilting movement of the outer frame with respect to the inner frame, results in rotation of the side-shifter piston rod within the side-shifter hydraulic cylinder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55556
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12647443', '11638676', '12106802', '10857346', '11467754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8516921320294125
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4847319116644127
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8149961099929126
- Mean Citation Score: 236.929604
- Max Citation Score: 252.83604
- Similarity Product: 198.0392169521141

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

Dataset: test