PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946436
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "153130"]

Abstract:
A hand pump design that utilizes an actuator with a folding nozzle suitable for use in e-commerce is presented. The folding nozzle equipped pump actuator forms part of a hand pump assembly which incorporates a pump body assembly comprising upper and lower pump bodies and a sliding collar which controls the inlet of fluid to be dispensed into fluid passages in the pump assembly and subsequently into the pump actuator. The hand pump further includes upper and lower check balls to prevent back flowing of the fluid to be dispensed into the dispenser bottle.

Claim (Index 13):
A manually operated dispensing pump comprising:\n an actuator, an integrated chaplet-closure having a chaplet portion and a closure portion, a pump body assembly, a compression spring, and a pump housing; wherein the actuator is equipped with a fluid passage in fluid communication with the nozzle and has a fully extended position, a partially depressed position, and a locked position; wherein a nozzle is foldable between a closed position which inhibits fluid flow and an open position which allows fluid flow; wherein the actuator and the nozzle, when the nozzle is folded, lack sharp edges, surface discontinuities or protrusions and therein reduce actuator and closure loosening caused by vibration during shipping; wherein the pump body assembly is fixed to the actuator and includes a fluid passage in fluid communication with the fluid passage in the actuator and a sliding collar; the collar slidable between a closed position which prevents fluid in the pump housing from entering a fluid passage in the pump body assembly when the actuator is fully extended and an open position which allows fluid from the pump housing to enter the fluid passage in the pump body assembly when the actuator is partially depressed; the pump housing being equipped with a check valve at a fluid inlet and wherein the compression spring is disposed in the pump housing; the compression spring engaging a piston of the pump body assembly and the housing at a position adjacent the fluid inlet, wherein the compression spring biases the actuator to the fully extended position; and the pump housing being fixed to the integrated chaplet-closure; means for holding the actuator in the locked position; and wherein the actuator and closure, when the nozzle is folded, lack sharp edges, surface discontinuities or protrusions and therein reduce actuator or closure loosening caused by vibration during shipping.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76364
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14689569', '11268445', '10691270', '11140707', '10669761']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7778718437693302
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4751699785956923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7476016572519664
- Mean Citation Score: 196.319672
- Max Citation Score: 202.1337
- Similarity Product: 151.27639777725938

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

Dataset: test