PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16196371
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["056", "227000"]

Abstract:
A crop harvesting header including a pickup reel mounted for rotation about a reel axis is disclosed and includes a plurality of reel bats peripherally disposed on the reel each having a plurality of outwardly extending fingers and being rotatable about a bat axis. A cam track adjacent to and surrounding the reel axis is immobilized w.r.t. the header and includes a cam surface and a guide surface. A linkage associated with each reel bat has first and second spaced apart cam followers that engage the cam surface at respective points of contact. The cam surface causes displacement of the linkage while traversing the cam track during rotation of the reel, the linkage being coupled to cause rotation of the reel bat about the bat axis for changing an angle of attack of the fingers. A guide follower disposed for engagement of the guide surface at a third point of contact between the first and second points of contact has an offset between the guide surface and the cam surface along the cam track selected to cause each of the first and second cam followers to maintain contact with the cam surface and the guide follower to maintain contact with the guide surface while traversing the cam track.

Claim (Index 1):
A crop harvesting header apparatus comprising:\n a pickup reel mounted for rotation about a reel axis within the header; a plurality of reel bats peripherally disposed on the pickup reel about a reel axis, each reel bat having a plurality of outwardly extending fingers along a length of the reel bat, each reel bat being rotatable about a bat axis; a non-circular cam track mounted adjacent to the pickup reel and surrounding the reel axis, the cam track being immobilized with respect to the header, the cam track including a cam surface and a guide surface; a linkage associated with each reel bat and having first and second spaced apart cam followers disposed to engage the cam surface at first and second points of contact, the cam surface being configured to cause displacement of the linkage in a generally radial direction with respect to the reel axis while traversing the cam track during rotation of the pickup reel, the linkage being coupled to the reel bat such that the displacement of the linkage causes rotation of the reel bat about the bat axis for changing an angle of attack of the fingers to control movement of a crop through the header; a guide follower disposed on the linkage for engagement of the guide surface at a third point of contact between the first and second points of contact; and wherein an offset between the guide surface and the cam surface along the cam track is selected to cause each of the first and second cam followers to maintain contact with the cam surface and the guide follower to maintain contact with the guide surface while traversing the cam track.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72152
- Patent Class: 56.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14226796', '14284346', '13359099', '14814860', '14652534']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.802730539458541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.491846331851177
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7716421186978046
- Mean Citation Score: 283.145694
- Max Citation Score: 342.02307
- Similarity Product: 282.65146723418

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

Dataset: test