PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["156", "577000"]

Abstract:
A hand held combined tool for drywall taping including a drywall tape applicator attached to a smoothening blade is described. The dry wall tape applicator includes a gated protrusion for feeding a dry wall tape through a ridged slot and to be held securely in position by a user before dipping the dry wall tape in a joint compound container to coat the dry wall tape with the joint compound on both side of the dry wall tape. The user then pulls the dry wall tape through the gated protrusion and the ridged slot to obtain a uniformly dual side coated drywall tape ready to be placed on a joint and to be immediately smoothened with the smoothening blade attached to the dry wall tape applicator.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of using a drywall tape applicator, comprising:\n inserting a pre-cut piece of drywall tape between a pair of tape-pulling protrusions of a drywall tape guide of the drywall tape applicator; inserting further the pre-cut piece of drywall tape into a tape-feeder slot of the drywall tape guide of the drywall tape applicator; securing a first end of the pre-cut piece of drywall tape, wherein a thumb of a user presses a portion of the first end of the pre-cut piece of drywall tape against a thumb support of the drywall tape guide of the drywall tape applicator; submerging the drywall tape applicator into a container of joint compound and water or mixture thereof; coating the piece of pre-cut drywall tape with the joint compound and water or the mixture thereof; pulling the piece of pre-cut drywall tape through the tape-feeder slot; affixing a second end of the piece of pre-cut drywall tape onto a seam formed between an intersecting drywall joint formed between two or more drywall panels; affixing an entire length of the piece of pre-cut drywall tape from the second end to the first end onto the seam; removing excess joint compound from the piece of pre-cut drywall tape with a drywall tool of the drywall tape applicator; and smoothening excess joint compound remaining on the piece of pre-cut drywall tape with the drywall tool of the drywall tape applicator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22414
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11172485', '11598852', '11464045', '11190298', '11893149']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8934372169412297
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.477052033449283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.851798698592035
- Mean Citation Score: 194.994628
- Max Citation Score: 213.05756
- Similarity Product: 172.01215647016525

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