PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16060891
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["206", "554000"]

Abstract:
A dispensing system for mailing and other bags comprises a plurality of bags ( 10 ) arranged as a stack, each bag being frangibly connected along their upper side edge at ( 15 ) to a header ( 16 ), and a fastener ( 18 ) extending through the header ( 16 ) of each bag for securing the bags ( 10 ) together into an assembly, the system further comprising hanger ( 24 ) for supporting the bag assembly, the hanger ( 24 ) comprising a formation ( 26 ) arranged to engage a complimentary formation ( 20 ) on the rear of the fastener ( 18 ). The hanger ( 24 ) can be permanently fixed to a support structure and the assembly of bag ( 10 ) is then fitted to the hanger by engaging the formation ( 20 ) on the fastener with the complimentary formation ( 26 ) on the hanger ( 24 ). The bags ( 10 ) then hang from the hanger ( 24 ) in such a way that they can easily and singlehandedly be opened and detached by pulling them away from their header ( 16 ).

Claim (Index 1):
A bag dispensing system comprising a plurality of bags arranged as a stack, each bag being frangibly connected along an upper side edge thereof to a respective header, and a plurality of fasteners each comprising a stem which extends between enlarged front and rear heads, the stems of the fasteners extending through respective apertures in each header, the enlarged heads of each fastener serving to constrain the headers on the stem thereof to secure the bags together into a bag assembly, the system further comprising a hanger for supporting the bag assembly, the hanger comprising formations arranged to engage respective complimentary formations on the rear head of respective fasteners each hanger formation comprising a channel into which the respective fastener formation can be inserted, each bag comprising a front sheet and a rear sheet, which are joined around their side and lower end edges, wherein only the rear sheet is attached to the header along its upper side edge, the upper side edge of the front sheet being free, the formation on the fastener being arranged such that the front sheet of the bags faces forwardly and is presented to the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41667
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09751290', '10300609', '12602225', '10300423', '13624450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8002775821259431
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4428752585084179
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7645373497641906
- Mean Citation Score: 119.4429522
- Max Citation Score: 124.763855
- Similarity Product: 98.76120711147011

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

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