PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16354771
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["049", "506000"]

Abstract:
A kit for use in realigning a door connected to a jamb includes a plurality of replacement hinges having different sized gaps formed between the leaves thereof when pivoted to extend in parallel, juxtaposed alignment, including gaps that are narrower and wider than a standard gap of the conventional hinges currently used to hang the door, prior to installation. A zero gap replacement hinge may have no gap between the leaves when in the closed position. The kit may include multiple reduced gap replacement hinges with varying sized gaps and multiple enlarged gap replacement hinges with varying sized gaps. To rehang a sagging door, the top conventional hinge may be replaced with a reduced gap replacement hinge and the bottom conventional hinge may be replaced with an enlarged gap replacement hinge. The reduced gaps and the enlarged gaps of the replacement hinges may be formed using a swaging technique.

Claim (Index 1):
A kit of replacement hinges for rehanging a door connected to a jamb by a plurality of hinges, the kit of replacement hinges comprising:\n one or more reduced gap replacement hinges having a pair of leaves with each leaf having a front surface and a rear surface that are both flat, planar and uniform surfaces in their entirety, connected via respective knuckles and a pin about which the pair of leaves are pivotable, and which when pivoted to a closed position in which the pair of leaves extend in parallel, juxtaposed alignment, prior to installation, have a fixed, non-adjustable, reduced dimension gap formed therebetween which is narrower than a gap formed between leaves of the plurality of hinges when in the closed position; and one or more enlarged gap replacement hinges having a pair of leaves with each leaf having a front surface and a rear surface that are both flat, planar and uniform surfaces in their entirety, connected via respective knuckles and a pin about which the pair of leaves are pivotable, and which when pivoted to a closed position in which the pair of leaves extend in parallel, juxtaposed alignment, prior to installation, have a fixed, non-adjustable, enlarged dimension gap formed therebetween which is wider than the gap formed between leaves of the plurality of hinges when in the closed position, the replacement hinges being selectable for replacing one or more of the plurality of hinges so as to adjust a width of a reveal between the door and the jamb such that, after installation of one or more of the replacement hinges, the door is realigned relative to the jamb and is able to open and close essentially without contacting the jamb.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16438
- Patent Class: 49.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15153393', '12913750', '11339897', '13144345', '12730468']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8101905105946927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5727308291143947
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.786444542446663
- Mean Citation Score: 283.989362
- Max Citation Score: 471.40033
- Similarity Product: 440.04183620115873

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

Dataset: test