PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16253780
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["073", "570000"]

Abstract:
Concrete which is used in structural support of freeways, bridges, and large buildings, must be tested for anomalies. The testing equipment consists of probes which are inserted into testing tubes. The tubes are placed within rebar cages before concrete is poured. The prior art involved ad hoc methods of tying the tubes to the rebar. The improvement is pre-fabricated, mass produced cylindrical devices which can be axially snapped onto the testing tube. A first cylindrical device also has a perpendicular receptacle which facilitates connection to a second cylindrical device, where the second device can be axially snapped onto a piece of longitudinal rebar on the edge of the rebar cage. The combined first and second devices safely, accurately, and quickly affix the testing tubes to the rebar.

Claim (Index 7):
A device for stabilizing and securing testing tubes, which are used for insertion of testing probes in cast-in-drilled-hole piles, comprising:\n a first hollow, cylinder with a cut of approximately one-third of its diameter running its axial length, and with an inner diameter that is slightly larger than an outer diameter of a testing tube; and where the first cylinder has a protruding male receptacle which is perpendicular to the cylinder's axis and into which receptacle a ball is embedded; a second pre-formed, hollow cylinder with a cut of approximately one-third of its diameter running its axial length, with a tab having a hole, and with an inner diameter of the cylinder which is slightly larger than an outer diameter of a longitudinal rebar located on an edge of a rebar cage, where the rebar cage is used to reinforce concrete that is later to be poured; where the second cylinder has a female receptacle which is capable of accepting the ball from the first semi-cylinder; where the first cylinder is axially snapped onto the testing tube; where the female receptacle of the second cylinder is snuggly pressed onto the ball of the first cylinder, such that the ball permits a swiveling connection between the first cylinder and the second cylinder; and, where the second cylinder is axially snapped onto the rebar and then tied in place by zip ties through the hole in the tab and around the rebar to secure the testing tube to the rebar.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80769
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15614951', '13405623', '15807316', '13788458', '15012201']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6383379284888645
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5299836651514065
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6275025021551187
- Mean Citation Score: 200.87852400000003
- Max Citation Score: 335.4277
- Similarity Product: 231.3870323932052

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