PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["004", "655000"]

Abstract:
A connector for use with a disposable flexible liner installed in a spa basin is provided to bridge between an overflow opening provided in the liner and an overflow aperture provided in an upright wall of the basin, so that when the soaking solution containable in an interior volume of the basin exceeds a prescribed height, the soaking solution is enabled to drain out of the interior volume through the liner at the communicated openings/apertures. A conduit formed by the connector for insertion into the basin to bridge between the communicated openings/apertures is arranged for a friction fit in an overflow throat extending from the overflow aperture defined in the basin.

Claim (Index 5):
A disposable liner for use with a basin to contain a liquid;\n the basin comprising: a bottom surface and an upright peripheral wall surface extending upwardly from the bottom surface to a top rim of the basin, the peripheral wall surface and the bottom surface collectively defining an interior volume of the basin within which the liquid can be contained; a drain hole defined in the bottom surface of the basin so that the liquid can exit the basin by gravity; an overflow aperture being defined in the peripheral wall surface of the basin at a location spaced above the bottom surface to enable the liquid to exit the interior volume of the basin when the liquid exceeds a prescribed height therein; an overflow drainage conduit located externally of the interior volume of the basin for guiding the liquid which has exited the interior volume of the basin away therefrom; a throat fluidically communicating the overflow aperture and the overflow drainage conduit; in combination with the basin, the disposable liner comprising: a body of flexible material forming an amorphous bag, which has a peripheral edge defining an open top of the bag, disposed in the basin in a working position of the liner in which the body of flexible material is covering the peripheral wall surface and the bottom surface of the basin including the drain hole for containing the liquid; the bag having a first inner side delimiting an interior of the bag for retaining the liquid and a second outer side substantially in contact with the basin in the working position of the liner; the bag having a thickness measured from the first inner side of the bag to the second outer side of the bag; the bag having a central portion substantially opposite from the open top and registered with the bottom surface of the basin in the working position; the bag having a fringe portion surrounding the central portion and terminating at the peripheral edge that is registered with the peripheral wall surface of the basin in the working position; the bag defining an overflow opening located in the fringe portion and arranged at a spaced location from the peripheral edge and formed through the thickness of the bag for positioning in communication with the overflow aperture in the basin such that the interior of the bag is communicated with an outside thereof through the overflow opening at the spaced location from the open top of the bag so that when the liquid retained by the liner in the working position exceeds the prescribed height, the liquid is enabled to drain out of the interior of the bag via the overflow opening of the liner which is communicated with the overflow aperture of the basin so that the liquid is further enabled to drain out of the interior volume of the basin; and a conduit mounted in fluidic communication with the overflow opening of the bag; the conduit forming a fluidic seal with the bag at the overflow opening; the conduit adapted to convey the liquid from an inner end of the conduit to an outer insertion end of the conduit between which is defined a path for overflow through the conduit; the inner end of the conduit being located at the overflow opening; the outer insertion end of the conduit being located outside the interior of the bag; the outer insertion end of the conduit being spaced from the second outer side of the bag so that the conduit protrudes therefrom for passing through the overflow aperture and into the throat in an operating position of the conduit so that the liquid is enabled to pass from the interior of the bag through the conduit and into the overflow drainage conduit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94915
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14962930', '11382548', '12881272', '14622584', '15608916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7891816522416469
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919608547509689
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7594595724925791
- Mean Citation Score: 207.285558
- Max Citation Score: 242.5572
- Similarity Product: 189.56287141084667

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