PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749475
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "163000"]

Abstract:
A drainage channel is adapted to receive fluid from a floor and drain it to a waste outlet. The channel has a floor portion and sides which fluidly enclose and define the channel. One of the sides has a substantially planar flange extending outwardly, and a second one of the sides has a substantially planar flange extending outwardly or upwardly. A waste aperture in the floor portion allows draining of the fluid from the channel to the waste outlet. A grate is supported from the floor portion and is adjustable in height. The channel can be located within an aperture in a building floor and the outwardly extending flanges can be secured to an upper surface of the floor, with the upwardly extending flanges securable to an upward surface of a channel surrounding wall, such that a drainage channel can be located in the building floor for removal of fluid.

Claim (Index 46):
A method of installing or providing a drainage channel adapted to receive fluid from a building floor and drain it to a waste outlet, comprising the steps of:\n providing an upwardly open channel having a lower most floor portion and about the floor portion are sides to fluidly enclose and define the channel, on an upper most periphery of the channel a first one of the sides has a substantially planar flange extending outwardly therefrom, and on the upper most periphery a second one of the sides has a substantially planar flange extending outwardly or upwardly therefrom, and a waste aperture in the floor portion to allow draining of the fluid from the channel to the waste outlet when fluidly connected thereto; locating the channel into an aperture in the building floor and securing the planar flanges to an upper presenting surface of the floor, and/or surrounding wall, to hold the drainage channel in place, and the drainage channel requires no support from below, it is only secured in place by the planar flanges; fluidly connecting the waste aperture to a waste outlet of the building; applying waterproofing at least to the building floor over the planar flanges and at least in part down into the channel; laying a building floor finishing at least to an upper periphery of the channel; locating a grate into the channel, the grate being supported from the floor portion via upstands unitary with, and extending from, a lower portion of the grate; and adjusting the grate height via a height of the upstands to have an upper surface of the grate substantially at a desired height relative an upper surface of a finishing of the building floor; such that a drainage channel can be located in the building floor for removal of fluid therefrom to the waste outlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44615
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15220227', '10823928', '13374791', '12579675', '12698475']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7477353397463211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4870721540482391
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.721669021176513
- Mean Citation Score: 187.591854
- Max Citation Score: 214.52434
- Similarity Product: 163.7597655427027

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