PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034613
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["206", "347000"]

Abstract:
A collating strip for holding plugs prior to insertion of the plugs into a hole such as a screw hole or nail hole after the screw or nail has been driven. The collating strip comprises an elongated strip having a plurality of perforations spaced along its length; and a plug positioned in each of the perforations, each plug having an insertion end and an external end, the insertion ends projecting from said strip. The strips may be in sheet form of a plurality of strips side by side with an individual strip being separable from the remaining strips of the sheet.

Claim (Index 1):
A strip of plugs configured for insertion into a hole in a surface, comprising:\n a substrate defining a first side and an opposite second side and having a plurality of perforations longitudinally spaced apart from one another extending between the first side to the second side; and a plurality of plugs, each plug extending axially from an external end to an insertion end with an axially extending outer surface therebetween, the outer surface being non-uniform in diameter in the axial direction and having a substantially cylindrical portion proximate the external end, wherein each plug is maintained by the substrate in a perforation via friction fit between the substrate and the substantially cylindrical portion with the external end and a portion of the outer surface exposed from the first side of the substrate, and the insertion end and a portion of the outer surface exposed from the second side of the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78333
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12942444', '13969176', '14842970', '12522789', '13046116']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.762655772592185
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887098830189306
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7352611836348596
- Mean Citation Score: 138.906822
- Max Citation Score: 140.57053
- Similarity Product: 96.37527862138867

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

Dataset: test