PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150147
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "538000"]

Abstract:
An actuator for a hand operated foam dispensing pump that utilizes a folding nozzle is presented. The folding nozzle of the actuator is configured so as to lock the actuator in place and prevent operation of the pump when the nozzle is folded. The actuator substantially reduces pump closure loosening (back-off) and nozzle breakage during shipping of a filled product by eliminating trigger handles or other conventional nozzle types which protrude from the side of the actuator. As such, the new actuator is particularly well-suited for use in e-commerce where the shipping of unboxed products is becoming increasingly common. The actuator is configured such that actuator depression (actuation) cannot occur when the folding nozzle is in a folded position.

Claim (Index 6):
The actuator assembly for a hand operated pump of  claim 1 , wherein the inlet end of the nozzle has an inlet flow area and the outlet end of the nozzle has an outlet flow area, wherein the outlet: flow area is larger than the inlet flow area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15946436', '12123117', '16023224', '10276820', '10969801']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7606004213362382
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5007926830528755
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7346196475079019
- Mean Citation Score: 206.587892
- Max Citation Score: 269.03198
- Similarity Product: 212.0763484070516

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