PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["137", "360000"]

Abstract:
A valve body for a shower, a bathtub, or a shower-bathtub installations. The valve body includes nipples for direct connection to PEX water supply lines and the shower head outlet, a bathtub faucet tapered nipple which is a universal outlet with male NPT threads to which a copper line can either be threaded, soldered or a slip or friction fit with a hose retainer clip and hot and cold adjustable limiters and standoffs on the rear side for installation of the valve body to a backer board. The standoff lug spacer means provide for precise spacing of the plumbing connections within the wall with respect to the front surface of the wall board. The standoffs also provide clearance between the plumbing connections and the backer board. The valve body accepts various back to back functional type pressure balanced cartridges for control of water flow through the faucet.

Claim (Index 2):
An in-wall valve assembly for a combination shower and bathtub consisting of:\n a valve body including a tapered nipple for a hot water line and a tapered nipple for a cold water line, a tapered nipple for a shower output and a tapered output nipple for cooperative engagement with a water line; said valve body including an adjustable flow limiter for a hot water input and a cold water input; said valve body including a first water controlling cartridge receiving aperture formed therein with external threads and a cartridge locknut capable of sealably fixing a water controlling cartridge in place within said first aperture; said valve body including spacer means defining a plurality of spaced apart opposing standoff lugs of a selected area and equal thickness on a rear surface for providing for proper positioning of said valve body with respect to a backer board installed between studs in a wall; said valve body including a first pair of lugs having threaded apertures for holding a removable housing on said valve body, said removable housing meant to be discarded after installation of said valve body; said valve body including a second pair of lugs having apertures formed therein for insertion of fasteners for attaching said valve body to a backer board; and said valve body including a temporary, removable pressure test plug which is held in place by a cartridge locknut for temporarily sealing of a valve output during temporary pressure testing of an installed water supply line to said valve body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75281
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15421782', '11132367', '13894859', '12426635', '15491984']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8607546960352211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4561736861075062
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8202965950424497
- Mean Citation Score: 180.523688
- Max Citation Score: 193.54771
- Similarity Product: 155.8432395386964

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

Dataset: test