PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893413
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["052", "748110"]

Abstract:
An adaptor is mounted on the tip of a nail gun normally used to attach roofing materials on the roof of a building to enable the nail gun also to be effective in attaching vinyl siding onto the exterior of a building structure. The adapter is mounted on the tip of the nail gun to engage nails discharged therefrom. The adaptor is formed with a circular projection that has a frusto-conical opening therethrough to guide discharged nails into engagement with the connective structure along the top edge of the siding panel. The circular projection has a depth that properly positions the discharge opening of the adaptor at the proper location for engagement with the siding connective structure. The conical shape of the opening through the adaptor is operable to deflect any misaligned nails being discharged from the nail gun into the discharge opening at the tip of the circular projection.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of attaching siding panels onto a building structure, each siding panel having an upper lip structure and upper connective structure along an upper edge and a lower connective structure along a lower edge configured to interengage with the upper connective structure of an adjacent siding panel, comprising the steps of:\n detachably securing an adaptor onto a discharge tip of a powered nail gun, said adaptor having a body member configured to conform to the discharge tip, said body member including a circular projection extending below a lower surface of said body member and defining a discharge opening for said adaptor; placing said circular projection into said upper connective structure in alignment with framework of said building structure; discharging a nail from said powered nail gun through the discharge opening in said circular projection of said adaptor to secure the upper connective structure to said framework of said building structure; displacing said nail gun along said upper connective strip to another point of alignment with said framework of said building structure; and further discharging another nail from said powered nail gun through said circular projection into said upper connective structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1831
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12194979', '12118246', '12924213', '10806690', '13626726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7700482883727159
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4838774255103371
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7414312020864781
- Mean Citation Score: 176.70144399999995
- Max Citation Score: 196.35968
- Similarity Product: 147.23041132354737

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