PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16073013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["405", "146000"]

Abstract:
A method and a device for laying down and sealingly anchoring a waterproofing liner of a synthetic material, on a surface of a hydraulic work. The liner is fastened by a plurality of tensioning and anchoring assemblies, each including a lower and upper metal section bars configured with a raised part having side flat surfaces for sealingly clamping the liner, wherein the lower section bar has more anchoring holes at a plurality of axially spaced apart anchoring zones; the surface of the hydraulic work is previously marked by reference marks underlining the presence of possible obstacles such as reinforcement rods near the anchoring holes of the anchoring zones of the lower section bar; therefore the lower section bar is positioned by aligning the anchoring holes to the reference marks, anchoring the section bar to the hydraulic work by anchoring devices) at least one hole of the anchoring zones wherein there is no obstacle to the insertion of the anchoring devices in the hydraulic work. The waterproofing liner is laid down on the surface of the hydraulic work, and is sealingly anchored it between the lower section bars and the upper section bars of the tensioning assemblies.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for laying down and tensioning a waterproofing liner on a surface of a hydraulic work, such as, for example, a canal, a dam, a water basin, or a hydraulic tunnel, wherein the waterproofing liner is fastened, tensioned and made to sealingly adhere to the surface of the hydraulic work by sealingly clamping the waterproofing liner by a plurality of locking assemblies, wherein each locking assembly includes a lower metal section bar anchored to the surface of the hydraulic work, and an upper metal section bar that conforms to the lower section bar; and wherein the waterproofing liner is sealingly clamped between the lower section bar and the upper section bar; wherein said method includes the steps of\n a) configuring each lower section bar, or an additional elongated anchoring element, with a set of anchoring holes at a plurality of anchoring zones, in axially spaced apart positions; b) marking anchoring zones of the surface of the hydraulic work with a set of reference marks in positions corresponding to the positions of the anchoring holes of the anchoring zones of the lower section bar, or additional elongated anchoring element; c) perforating the surface of the hydraulic work at least one reference mark of the anchoring zones of the surface of the hydraulic work; d) positioning each lower section bar, or additional elongated anchoring element, aligning the set of the anchoring holes of each anchoring zone of the section bar with the perforations made at each anchoring zone of the surface of the hydraulic work; e) anchoring the lower section bar, or the additional elongated anchoring element to the hydraulic work, by anchoring devices passing through said anchoring holes aligned to the perforations made at the reference marks; and f) laying down, anchoring and tensioning the waterproofing liner, connecting the upper section bar to the lower section bar of each locking assembly, sealingly clamping the waterproofing liner between opposite slanted flat walls of the lower section bar and the upper section bar.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37931
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15500723', '14257530', '14812860', '14267397', '13435527']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7639459557043311
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4676384457154216
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7343152047054402
- Mean Citation Score: 165.10327
- Max Citation Score: 181.57964
- Similarity Product: 148.15454560073377

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

Dataset: test