PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16122096
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "417000"]

Abstract:
Drywall made with a pre-formed facer layer, pre-formed to have a well-defined depression along the side edge portion of the drywall. When the pre-formed paper is applied to the drywall core, the resulting sheet of drywall has a well-defined depressed edge portion for receiving mud and drywall tape. The facer layer is pre-formed by passing the semi-solid paper slurry beneath an embossing roller which includes a raised circumferential rib on each side of the roller, and preferably at least one raised crossbar. As the semi-solid paper slurry passes beneath embossing roller, a depressed side edge is formed along each side edge portion of the paper, and preferably a wider lateral depression is formed across the width of the paper every 8, 10 or 12 feet along the length of paper as it is pressed by roller.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for making drywall by preforming a facing paper layer for application to a drywall core, comprising: passing a semi-solid paper slurry beneath an embossing roller which comprises a circumferential embossing rib on each side of said semi-solid paper slurry, and forming with said embossing roller a well-defined side edge depression along each edge portion of the paper, as said paper slurry passes beneath said embossing roller; each said circumferential embossing rib being wide enough to form a well-defined side edge depression which will accommodate \u00bd the width of a piece of drywall tape with space to spare so that the applicator doesn't have to be precise in applying the tape to a joint between abutting drywall sheets when said facing paper layer is applied to a core, and deep enough to accommodate at least one layer of drywall tape and at least one covering layer of mud; applying said facing paper layer to drywall core.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02778
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10462799', '13931443', '15449435', '11464045', '14075924']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.800561079204238
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4835996766076388
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7688649389445781
- Mean Citation Score: 172.39364799999996
- Max Citation Score: 177.96497
- Similarity Product: 118.63556275830268

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

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