PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["273", "359000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for use in roping skills training and practice provides a practical, effective, lightweight, and economical alternative to using live animals for heeling practice, which involves the roping of the hind legs of the animal. This apparatus includes a simulated animal torso and a pair of simulated hind legs. The apparatus includes a support frame and a drive system. The drive system includes mechanical links that provide interconnection between the pair of simulated hind legs and the drive system, thus providing for lifelike and coordinated leg and torso movement.

Claim (Index 20):
A mobile roping training apparatus comprising:\n a simulated animal torso; a pair of simulated hind legs, wherein the simulated hind legs are rotatably coupled to a rear of the simulated animal torso, such that the simulated hind legs may pivot forward and backward about the rear of the simulated animal torso; a support frame, wherein the simulated animal torso is rotatably coupled to the support frame, such that the simulated animal torso may pivot up and down about the support frame; and a drive system, including:\n a drive shaft, \n a drive pulley, coupled to the drive shaft, and \n a plurality of mechanical linkages, wherein each mechanical linkage includes:\n a first link, coupled to one of the simulated hind legs and rotatably coupled to a second link, and \n the second link, rotatably coupled to the first link and coupled to one of the drive pulley and the drive shaft, \n \n wherein rotation of the drive pulley and the drive shaft causes movement of the plurality of mechanical linkages, such that the simulated hind legs pivot and move in a rearward direction as the animal torso moves toward an upward position, and such that the simulated hind legs pivot and move in a forward direction as the animal torso moves toward a downward position, thereby simulating an anatomical movement of a running animal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86792
- Patent Class: 273.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12800063', '11529788', '13327671', '15042195', '12245372']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.558528875823252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.491270134756899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5518030017166167
- Mean Citation Score: 208.30535
- Max Citation Score: 264.9571
- Similarity Product: 226.389984968406

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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