PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961044
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["297", "159100"]

Abstract:
Mobile folding restaurant booth style benches are provided, which may be arranged in opposed pairs to form restaurant style booths. An individual bench incorporates a mechanism for shifting the weight of the bench between a mobile base, which may be supported by swivel casters, and a stationary base, which may be supported by non-slip feet, actuated by pivoting a bench seat down from a folded storage position to an unfolded seating position. The weight shifting mechanism may include an engagement member, which is initially spaced apart from an actuator at a folded angle of the seat, and which contacts and begins transmitting force and movement to the actuator at a partially unfolded angle of the seat. Preferably, the bench further includes a biasing component that biases the stationary base upward relative to the mobile base.

Claim (Index 1):
A mobile folding bench comprising\n a seat comprising a sitting surface configured to seat the human occupant; a mobile base comprising at least one mobile support member adapted to support the mobile base on a floor surface and to facilitate lateral movement of the mobile base relative to the floor surface; a stationary base movably coupled to the mobile base to permit at least vertical movement of the stationary base relative to the mobile base, the stationary base comprising at least one stationary support member adapted to support the stationary base on a generally horizontal floor surface and to inhibit lateral movement of the stationary base relative to the floor surface, the seat being supported by and pivotally coupled to the stationary base to move between a seating position in which the sitting surface is at a generally horizontal sitting angle and a folded position in which the sitting surface is at a generally vertical folded angle; a base biasing member connected between the mobile base and the stationary base and biasing the stationary base in a generally upward direction relative to the mobile base, the biasing member providing a sufficient base biasing force to maintain the stationary support member at a vertical clearance distance above the floor surface when the mobile support member contacts the floor surface and the seat is in the folded position, so that the folding bench is supported on the floor surface by the mobile support member; and an engagement member operatively connected to the seat and configured to transmit a lifting force from the stationary base to lift the mobile base relative to the stationary base when the seat is moved from the folded position to the seating position, so that the folding bench is supported on the floor surface by the stationary support member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86076
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15338148', '15048596', '11675111', '13900311', '15465949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.774988282100323
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.593319954950789
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7568214493853697
- Mean Citation Score: 356.925764
- Max Citation Score: 555.8059
- Similarity Product: 493.58327482413046

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

Dataset: test