PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16103550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["156", "280000"]

Abstract:
In an embodiment, a paint roller manufacturing system and method uses a fabric-coating applicator to apply a fabric adhesive onto a portion of a perforated paint roller cover fabric material having a plurality of perforations through which adhesive may flow, and into the plurality of perforations and into interstitial spaces of the fabric material, to yield a length of coated fabric. An inner strip and an outer strip are wound about a mandrel in offset relation. A strip-coating applicator is used to apply a strip adhesive to the outer strip as it is wound about the mandrel. Simultaneously with the step of applying the strip adhesive to the outer strip, a portion of the coated paint roller fabric material is received at the outer strip and the length of coated fabric is wound about at least the outer strip to form a paint roller tube.

Claim (Index 26):
A paint roller manufacturing system comprising:\n cover feeder for continuously feeding a windable width of perforated paint roller cover fabric, the paint roller cover fabric having a back side and an applicator side; fabric coating applicator positioned to apply a coating to the back side of the perforated paint roller cover fabric and into the plurality of perforations and into interstitial spaces of the fabric material; compressing roller positioned downstream of the fabric coating applicator and configured to apply a compressive force on the coating after it has been applied to the back side of the paint roller cover fabric; a mandrel; a strip dispenser for continuously dispensing a windable width of strip material having an inner side and an outer side; guide system for guiding the windable strip coming from the strip dispenser to be wound about the mandrel; adhesive applicator configured to apply adhesive on substantially all of the outer side of the windable strip upstream of a location where the coated paint roller cover fabric is wound about the windable strip; and compressing and advancing device for applying inward pressure normal to the mandrel on the coated paint roller fabric cover after it is wound about the first and second strips, and for advancing the windable strip and the coated paint roller fabric cover along the mandrel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35385
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15676507', '15968476', '12350798', '13081114', '14789723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9021029044700808
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5227402387321253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8641666378962852
- Mean Citation Score: 271.69435400000003
- Max Citation Score: 343.03845
- Similarity Product: 269.9244578517079

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