PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164939
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["052", "172000"]

Abstract:
In a method of supplying an element for covering a non-vision area in a curtain wall on an architectural structure, a plurality of shadow boxes is prefabricated at a location remote from both a unitized curtain wall assembly shop and the architectural structure. The shadow boxes are prefabricated by sealing an interior spacer between a vision glass panel and a back structure. The back structure includes an insulating material surrounded by a rigid envelope. The vision glass panel, the back structure and the interior spacer define a hermetically sealed void therein. A structural seal is applied about the interior spacer and is affixed to the peripheral edge of the vision glass, the interior spacer and the back structure. The plurality of shadow boxes is then delivered to a selected one of the unitized curtain wall assembly shop and the architectural site.

Claim (Index 8):
A shadow box for use with an architectural curtain wall system, comprising:\n (a) a vision glass panel having an outside-surface, an opposite inside-surface and a peripheral edge; (b) an opaque back structure, having a peripheral edge, the opaque back structure including an insulating material and a rigid metal envelope disposed around the insulating material in which the rigid metal envelope seals all of the insulating material therein so that the insulating material is sealed inside of a continuous air and vapor barrier and in which the insulating material is selected from a group of insulating materials consisting of: an aerogel, a mineral wool, a polyisocyanurate, and a vacuum sealed fumed silica, the metal envelope having a rigidity sufficient to prevent damage to the insulating material; (c) an interior spacer, defining a plurality of chambers therein in which a desiccant is placed, disposed along the peripheral edge of the inside surface of the vision glass panel and along the peripheral edge of the opaque back structure so as to hold the vision glass panel in a spaced apart relationship from the opaque back structure; (d) a first polyisobutylene seal that seals the interior spacer to the vision glass panel and a second polyisobutylene seal that seals the interior spacer to the opaque back structure so that the vision glass panel, the opaque back structure and the interior spacer define a hermetically sealed void therein, the spacer having a length so that the vision glass panel is spaced apart from the opaque back structure by at least one inch; and (e) a silicone seal disposed about the interior spacer and affixed to the peripheral edge of the vision glass, the interior spacer and the opaque back structure so as to provide structural support thereto.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14162984', '14997813', '16610420', '15600295', '15961856']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7873606465702553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5778690967015218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.766411491583382
- Mean Citation Score: 293.675018
- Max Citation Score: 473.08823
- Similarity Product: 414.5774129797387

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

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