PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164939
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["052", "172000"]

Abstract:
In a method of supplying an element for covering a non-vision area in a curtain wall on an architectural structure, a plurality of shadow boxes is prefabricated at a location remote from both a unitized curtain wall assembly shop and the architectural structure. The shadow boxes are prefabricated by sealing an interior spacer between a vision glass panel and a back structure. The back structure includes an insulating material surrounded by a rigid envelope. The vision glass panel, the back structure and the interior spacer define a hermetically sealed void therein. A structural seal is applied about the interior spacer and is affixed to the peripheral edge of the vision glass, the interior spacer and the back structure. The plurality of shadow boxes is then delivered to a selected one of the unitized curtain wall assembly shop and the architectural site.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of supplying an element for covering a non-vision area in a curtain wall on an architectural structure, comprising the steps of:\n (a) sealing an insulating material in a rigid metal envelope, having an exterior surface and a periphery, so that the insulating material is sealed inside of a continuous air and vapor barrier, the metal envelope having a rigidity sufficient to prevent damage to the insulating material; (b) attaching an interior spacer, having an outer edge, to the exterior surface of the rigid envelope adjacent to the periphery thereof with a first moisture resistant hermetic seal material; (c) attaching a vision glass unit, having a periphery, to the spacer with a second moisture resistant hermetic seal material so that the interior surface of the rigid envelope, the spacer and the vision glass unit define a hermetically sealed void therein; and (d) applying a structural seal material to the periphery of the rigid envelope, the outer edge of the spacer and the periphery of the vision glass unit, wherein the spacer has a width so as to space the vision glass unit from the rigid envelope by at least one inch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14162984', '14997813', '16610420', '15600295', '15961856']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7888359098244818
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5730685135481988
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7672591701968535
- Mean Citation Score: 293.675018
- Max Citation Score: 473.08823
- Similarity Product: 385.01066752625405

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

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