PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911776
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["404", "097000"]

Abstract:
A hand concrete float is formed with a plastic base member affixed by fasteners to an arched handle. The base member includes a support portion and a working portion. The support portion has the arched handle connected to the upper surface thereof, while the working portion is integrally formed with the support portion on the bottom surface thereof. The working portion is formed with a chamfer extending around the perimeter of the working portion to make the working portion smaller that the support portion. The working portion is also formed with grooves that crisscross to form diamond-shaped landings. The grooves have a width sufficient to allow concrete to accumulate within the grooves to season the hand concrete float before operative use. The concrete filled grooves provide a rough effective working surface that has a long operative life with the weight thereof commensurate with conventional hand concrete floats.

Claim (Index 7):
A hand concrete float for smoothing freshly poured concrete surfaces, comprising:\n a base member having an upper support portion and a lower working portion, said support portion having a thickness dimension greater than a corresponding thickness dimension of said working portion; a plurality of grooves formed into said working portion to said support portion, said grooves extending in opposing directions to form a series of diamond-shaped landings between intersecting grooves, said grooves having a width dimension that is sufficiently large to fill with concrete which will harden in the grooves to provide a seasoned rough working surface on said working portion; a chamfer extending around a perimeter of said working portion to create a working surface that is smaller than said support portion; and a handle affixed to said support surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10803305', '14542823', '15000693', '10628617', '13025577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7208290730657737
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.459532353721261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6946994011313224
- Mean Citation Score: 158.353654
- Max Citation Score: 166.83377
- Similarity Product: 134.59313392387986

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