PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112983
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["221", "232000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for plugging a hole, the apparatus including: a chamber for housing a plurality of plugs which are sized to fit the hole, the chamber having a feed channel to permit passage of plugs under gravity to a feed location at or near an end of the apparatus; a plug exit; a guide for positioning the apparatus such that the plug exit is at an entrance to, or is within, the hole; and a push rod for driving a plug from the feed location through the plug exit into the hole.

Claim (Index 1):
A termite control hole plugging apparatus for guided delivery of resilient and spherical plugs into holes in a concrete slab, the apparatus comprising:\n a chamber adapted to house a plurality of resilient and spherical plugs sized to fit a termite control hole, the chamber having a feed channel to permit passage of the spherical plugs under gravity to a feed location, wherein the feed channel comprises a helical passageway; a shaft passing through the chamber and terminating at a plug exit and operatively positioned at an entrance, or within the termite control hole; and a push rod slidable within the shaft for driving a plug from the feed location through the plug exit and into the termite control hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98039
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12652354', '15730368', '12990998', '13390399', '13254444']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7272215355329252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4676510167983584
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7012644836594686
- Mean Citation Score: 135.71848599999998
- Max Citation Score: 143.3503
- Similarity Product: 108.29968468871714

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

Dataset: test