PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984574
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["198", "311000"]

Abstract:
A material transfer vehicle includes a loading conveyor and a loading component (such as a truck-receiving hopper component or a windrow pick-up component) that is adapted to be removably attached to the lower end of the loading conveyor. The loading conveyor has a right guide plate on the right side of the lower end and a left guide plate on the left side of the lower end. The loading component has a right guide bracket that is adapted to align with and engage the right guide plate of the loading conveyor, and a left guide bracket that is adapted to align with and engage the left guide plate of the loading conveyor.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 9  which includes:\n (a) providing a right alignment bracket having a right alignment bracket fastener hole on the right guide plate on the right side of the lower end of the loading conveyor; \n (b) providing the loading conveyor with a right sidewall adjacent the right guide plate, said right sidewall including a loading conveyor fastener hole; \n (c) providing the loading component with a right sidewall adjacent the right guide bracket, said right sidewall including a loading component fastener hole; \n (d) providing a right fastener; \n (e) providing a right alignment tab in the right guide bracket of the loading component, said right alignment tab:\n (i) having a right alignment tab fastener hole; \n (ii) being adapted to align with the right alignment bracket on the right guide plate of the loading conveyor so that a right side fastener may be connected between the right alignment bracket fastener hole on the right alignment bracket and the right alignment tab fastener hole and tightened to move the loading component with respect to the lower end of the loading conveyor until the fastener hole in the right sidewall of the lower end of the loading conveyor is aligned with the loading component fastener hole in the right sidewall of the loading component; \n \n (f) providing a right side fastener; \n (g) providing a left alignment bracket having a left alignment bracket fastener hole on the left guide plate on the left side of the lower end of the loading conveyor; \n (h) providing the loading conveyor with a left sidewall adjacent the left guide plate, said left sidewall including a loading conveyor fastener hole; \n (i) providing a left fastener; \n (j) providing the loading component with a left sidewall adjacent the left guide bracket, said left sidewall including a loading component fastener hole; \n (k) providing the left guide bracket of the loading component with a left alignment tab having a left alignment tab fastener hole, said left alignment tab being adapted to align with the left alignment bracket on the left guide plate of the loading conveyor so that a left side fastener may be connected between the left alignment bracket fastener hole on the left alignment bracket and the left alignment tab fastener hole and tightened to move the loading component with respect to the lower end of the loading conveyor until the fastener hole in the left sidewall of the lower end of the loading conveyor is aligned with the loading component fastener hole in the left sidewall of the loading component; \n (l) providing a left side fastener; \n (m) positioning the loading conveyor of the material transfer vehicle with respect to the loading component so that:\n (i) the right guide plate on the right side of the lower end of the loading conveyor is aligned with the right guide bracket of the loading component; and \n (ii) the left guide plate on the left side of the lower end of the loading conveyor is aligned with the left guide bracket of the loading component; \n \n (n) moving the loading conveyor of the material transfer vehicle towards the loading component until:\n (i) the right guide bracket on the loading component engages the right guide plate of the loading conveyor; and \n (ii) the left guide bracket on the loading component engages the left guide plate of the loading conveyor; \n \n (o) using the right side fastener to connect the right alignment bracket fastener hole on the right alignment bracket and the right alignment tab fastener hole; \n (p) using the left side fastener to connect the left alignment bracket fastener hole on the left alignment bracket and the left alignment tab fastener hole; \n (q) tightening the right side fastener to move the loading component with respect to the lower end of the loading conveyor until the fastener hole in the right sidewall of the lower end of the loading conveyor is aligned with the loading component fastener hole in the right sidewall of the loading component; \n (r) tightening the left side fastener to move the loading component with respect to the lower end of the loading conveyor until the fastener hole in the left sidewall of the lower end of the loading conveyor is aligned with the loading component fastener hole in the left sidewall of the loading component; \n (s) placing the right fastener into the fastener hole in the right sidewall of the lower end of the loading conveyor and into the loading component fastener hole in the right side of the loading component to at least partially secure the loading component to the loading conveyor; \n (t) placing the left fastener into the fastener hole in the left sidewall of the lower end of the loading conveyor and into the loading component fastener hole in the left side of the loading component to at least partially secure the loading component to the loading conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68182
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11372725', '14975017', '15950753', '14563258', '15694464']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7918681723048112
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5108490031512041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7637662553894504
- Mean Citation Score: 337.743122
- Max Citation Score: 362.5197
- Similarity Product: 194.92416238215569

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

Dataset: test