PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893409
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["404", "062000"]

Abstract:
A field-assembly dowel basket for concrete construction configured for in-the-field assembly from a small number of component parts, including dowels, dowel sleeves that loosely house the dowels, “W” shaped frame wires that support the dowel sleeves, straight shipping wires that connect dowel basket sections together, and “T” connectors that join the frame sections to the shipping wires. Various embodiments of the field-assembly dowel basket may use different types of dowel sleeves, such as open-channel sleeves, closed-channel sleeves, and sealed-channel sleeves in which tape or another suitable cover is used to seal open-channel sleeves. The dowel sleeves may house different types of dowels, such as rectangular plate dowels and round rod dowels.

Claim (Index 6):
An assembled field-assembly dowel basket for concrete construction, comprising:\n a plurality of dowels elongated in a lateral direction; a plurality of dowel sleeves elongated in the lateral direction configured to loosely house the dowels; a plurality of wire segments; a plurality of connectors attached to the wire segments; wherein the dowels, dowel sleeves, wire segments and connectors are assembled into a plurality of dowel assemblies without welding of the wire segments to each other; wherein the dowel assemblies are assembled into a dowel basket; wherein the wire segments of each dowel assembly comprise a pair of opposing frame wires; wherein each dowel sleeve comprises a pair of recesses, each receiving a portion of one of the opposing frame wires through a snap-in interference fit, to position the pair of opposing frame wires to extend in a transverse direction perpendicular to the lateral direction spaced apart from each other in the lateral direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84058
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399892', '11056313', '11187767', '13116851', '15426865']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7524986416731783
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5625863247262158
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.733507409978482
- Mean Citation Score: 339.8449740000001
- Max Citation Score: 493.79614
- Similarity Product: 340.093275789566

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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