PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868898
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "200000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a system for installing a rail and closure assembly on a metal roof. The rail and closure assembly includes a supporting rail and closure structure adapted to be supported by adjacent rib elevations of the roof, and an overlying load adapted to be supported by the rail and closure structure. The rail and closure structure diverts water around the rail and closure assembly. The entire heights of the side rails, including the rail bottoms, are above the closest portions of the panel flats. At least one panel of each of the side rails faces the respective rib along the full length of the respective side rail. The rail and closure assembly also includes a lower closure. Opposing ends of the lower closure extend upwardly and interface with the ribs. The lower closure further comprises a lower flange which interfaces with a respective panel flat.

Claim (Index 36):
A load system for installing a load on a metal panel roof, such metal panel roof comprising elongate metal roof panels, each having a length and a width, such roof panels having upstanding rib elevations, defining elevated roof panel ribs, at opposing sides of the respective roof panels, panel flats being disposed between such roof panel rib elevations, said load system comprising:\n (a) a rail and closure structure comprising\n (i) a first side rail, having first and second ends, a first upstanding web, a first mounting flange at a top of said first upstanding web, and a first lower shoulder extending from a first bottom of said first upstanding web, said first lower shoulder being mounted to a first such rib, and \n (ii) a second side rail, having third and fourth ends, a second upstanding web, a second mounting flange at a top of said second upstanding web, and a second lower shoulder extending from a second bottom of said second upstanding web, said second lower shoulder being mounted to a second such rib, \n roof panel profiles being defined by cross-sections extending across the widths of such roof panels, further comprising\n (c) a lower closure structure having opposing upwardly-extending ends thereof, configured to interface with the metal roof panel profiles at the ribs to which said side rails are mounted, and a lower flange configured to interface with an intervening panel flat between such ribs, said lower closure further having an upstanding panel, extending upwardly from said lower flange and extending between such first and second ribs, thereby to prevent flow of water from an up-slope side of said lower closure structure to a down-slope side of said lower closure structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22535
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12932892', '13065033', '13065172', '13889452', '13777283']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8767601561914004
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5831872060780481
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8474028611800651
- Mean Citation Score: 493.69721
- Max Citation Score: 506.71555
- Similarity Product: 456.1853612912448

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

Dataset: test