PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["156", "073100"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a tool  10  of the invention for welding a PET gland  12  onto a PET bottle  14  for the fitment of a dispensing tap. The tool  10  is generically indicated as ultrasonic horn or sonotrode in the figure. The ultrasonic horn has a tapered serrated portion  16  which has a lead-in taper section  18  to initiate the melt of the plastics to be welded, and a knife section  20  (when required), being the cutting zone thereof, which in use cuts open a sealed spigot  22  so that the horn can enter into the spigot  24  for the welding operation.

Claim (Index 15):
A method as claimed in  claim 14 , which includes cutting an opening into the spigot to permit the welding tool to enter into the spigot for the welding operation of the gland onto the spigot, said cutting being performed by a cutting tool portion being provided on the leading edge or face of the welding tool so that, when the spigot is closed at one end typically due to the production process, the welding tool has a cutting tool portion, which could be ultrasound, at its face for cutting said opening into the spigot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5493
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14893667', '13857604', '10398939', '14893324', '12593348']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8885333682491753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4741799844120839
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8470980298654662
- Mean Citation Score: 115.6252838
- Max Citation Score: 125.106964
- Similarity Product: 84.8003636345675

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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