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 4):
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 pre-formed, hollow cylinder without a cut, with a protruding knob that is perpendicular to its axial length, and with an inner diameter slightly larger than an outer diameter of a testing tube; a second pre-formed, hollow cylinder with a cut of approximately one-third of its diameter running its axial length, with a protruding knob that is perpendicular to its axial length, with a tab having a hole where the tab is located approximately 90 degrees away from the knob on an outer diameter of the cylinder, 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; a connector which has two holes to permit insertion of the protruding knobs from each of the first cylinder and the second cylinder; where the first cylinder is slid onto the testing tube from an end of the testing tube which is to be nearest to a bottom of a hole in the ground into which the rebar cage will be installed; where the knob of the first cylinder is inserted into the connector; where the knob of the second cylinder is inserted into the connector; 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): 0.6383386894474276
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5300228375642421
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.627507104259109
- Mean Citation Score: 200.87852400000003
- Max Citation Score: 335.4277
- Similarity Product: 230.92127432588345

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