PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995855
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["052", "126100"]

Abstract:
A tile leveling and alignment system for use in aligning and leveling a plurality of tiles, comprising a tile leveling and aligning device, a vertical leveling hand device, a horizontal leveling device and an optional slip ring/spacer device. The tile leveling and aligning device comprising a base portion integrally coupled to a stem portion projecting upwards from the base portion. The base portion adapted for engaging a bottom surface of a number of tiles to be leveled and aligned. The stem portion comprising a central aperture and one or more spacer legs or fins, each spacer leg extending transversely from the central aperture. Each spacer leg defining a joint width between adjacent tiles to be leveled and aligned. Each spacer leg dividing the tile leveling and aligning device into equal sized areas of common shape and defining a joint width between adjacent tiles to be leveled and aligned.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for aligning and leveling tiles being secured to a suitable substrate, comprising:\n applying a setting bed, placing a plurality of tiles in the setting bed, positioning a tile device at an intersection of one of: two, three or four adjacent tiles in the setting bed, such that each tile abuts a corner of a base portion integrally coupled to a stem portion, the stem portion of the tile device thereby spacing the two, three or four adjacent tiles to be aligned at a predetermined distance with respect to each other, the stem portion projecting upwards from the base portion and having one or more spacer legs extending transversely from a center aperture of the stem portion, the one or more spacer legs having a series of external threads integrally formed on an outer face of the one or more spacer legs, the one or more spacer legs dividing the base portion into equal sized areas of common shape, each of the equal sized areas adapted to receive a corner of one of the tiles to be leveled and aligned, the one or more spacer legs defining a joint width between adjacent tiles to be leveled and aligned, using a horizontal leveling device to apply a circular or rotational horizontal leveling force to the stem portion of the tile device, to cause the top of the tiles to be horizontally aligned together in the same plane with minimal or no slippage, using a vertical leveling hand device to apply a vertical force to the substrate beneath the tiles to be leveled resulting in a counter force thereby lifting or lowering the tiles in a vertical plane to cause a vertical alignment of the tiles, and applying a further rotational force to the horizontal leveling device to cause the stem portion to separate from the base portion leaving the base portion beneath the set tiles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28986
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12291268', '15891686', '14729861', '15260428', '10279387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8287996713863199
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4901084301453972
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7949305472622277
- Mean Citation Score: 239.4029
- Max Citation Score: 249.57773
- Similarity Product: 198.0420724449426

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

Dataset: test