PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772956
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["052", "235000"]

Abstract:
An architectural cladding kit; and a method of preparing architectural masonry slips for subsequent attachment to a substrate employs a plurality of joint brackets having a base and two free ends. The joint brackets engage with a plurality of substantially rectangular masonry slips, each slip including an outer face; an inner face; two oppositely directed edge faces; and a slot formed in each edge face. The joint bracket is attachable to a substrate such as a building structure. Each joint bracket free end is adapted for engagement within the slot formed in an edge face of two opposed masonry slips which are attached to the substrate by an adhesive. The joint brackets ensures that the masonry slips cannot fall even if the adhesive connection were to fail.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of preparing architectural masonry slips for subsequent attachment to an inverted surface, including the steps of:\n (i) providing a plurality of substantially rectangular masonry slips, each slip including an outer face; an inner face; and two oppositely directed edge faces each having a length and depth dimension and a slot formed therein; (ii) providing a panel substrate; (iii) providing a plurality of joint brackets each having a base and no more than two free ends for joining two adjacent slips; (iv) providing s supply of mortar and/or adhesive; (v) applying adhesive to surfaces of either, or both, of the panel substrate and a slip; (vi) adhering the slip to the panel substrate; (vii) repeating steps (iv) and (v) to produce a first single aligned course of slips on the panel substrate; (viii) engaging one free end of a joint bracket within the aligned slots in each non-perimeter edge face of said aligned course of slips; (ix) adhering a second single aligned course of slips on the panel substrate alongside the first course whilst engaging slots along the opposing edge faces of the second course with the other free end of the joint bracket; and (x) filling the space between opposing edge faces of said first and second courses, and down to the base of the joint brackets, with said mortar and/or adhesive; wherein, when attached to an inverted surface, the free ends of each joint bracket are each capable of supporting the weight of the respective inverted courses thus providing a fail-safe support for the inverted masonry slips in the event of a failure of the adhesive bond applied between each masonry slip and the panel substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81579
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12994199', '11733346', '14653747', '12044682', '12309795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8354823580058435
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4811485674490069
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8000489789501598
- Mean Citation Score: 194.314576
- Max Citation Score: 203.43304
- Similarity Product: 150.94709412187578

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