PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943349
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["052", "232000"]

Abstract:
Fire block devices for application to a wall component. The fire-block device can be a wall component that includes a fire-resistant material strip that expands in response to sufficient heat to create a fire-resistant barrier. In some applications, the fire-block wall component is positioned to extend lengthwise along and across a gap between wallboard members. The fire-block wall component may have a U-shaped central portion and a pair of side portions extending in opposite directions from the central portion. The fire-resistant material may be positioned on the central portion of the fire-block device. The central portion may be positioned within the gap such that the fire-resistant material expands in response to sufficient heat to create a fire-resistant barrier.

Claim (Index 11):
A fire-rated wall assembly for sealing a deflection gap from fire, smoke and sound, the fire-rated wall assembly comprising:\n a horizontal support structure; a plurality of vertical wall studs; a track for receiving the wall studs, the track connected to the horizontal support structure, the track comprising a web, a first flange and a second flange, the first and second flanges extending in the same direction from opposite edges of the web, the web and each of the first and second flanges forming a corner of the track at the opposite edges of the web; a first wall board supported by the wall studs on a first side of the stud and a second wall board supported by the wall studs on a second side of the stud opposite the first side, wherein the wall studs and the first and second wall boards are movable relative to the track, wherein each of the first and second wall boards are spaced apart from the horizontal support structure to define a first deflection gap and a second deflection gap on a respective one of the first and second sides of the wall studs between respective upper edges of the first and second wall boards and the horizontal support structure; and an elongate fire-block wall component attached to the track, the elongate fire-block wall component extending along one of the first or second deflection gaps, the elongate fire-block wall component comprising:\n a fire-resistant material layer; \n a tape layer attached to the fire-resistant material layer; and \n an adhesive layer disposed on at least one of the fire-resistant material layer and the tape layer, \n wherein the fire-resistant material layer, the tape layer and the adhesive layer are arranged in layers, and wherein the elongate fire-block wall component is positioned in the deflection gap between a respective one of the first and second flanges of the track and the wall board, and attached to the track such that the elongate fire-block wall component seals the deflection gap from fire, smoke and sound.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11864
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15481272', '14603785', '13740024', '14213869', '12887400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8571435852739543
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5582183912057302
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8272510658671319
- Mean Citation Score: 426.66943800000007
- Max Citation Score: 467.49063
- Similarity Product: 425.8959519552362

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

Dataset: test