PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["403", "292000"]

Abstract:
A joining device for parts of furniture and furnishing accessories, of the shelf unit, bookcase, drawer unit, bed frame, seating type and the like, includes a casing or container body suitable for being inserted in a seat formed in one of the components of the item of furniture to be joined and is provided with an expansion bushing externally projecting with respect to a first end or front open end of said casing or container body and suitable for engaging with a further seat of a further component of the item of furniture to be joined to the component wherein the casing or container body is inserted. Said joining device includes a cam mechanism for a linear motion of actuation means co-operating in an expansion deformation movement of the expansion bushing and simultaneous expansion of at least one portion of said casing or container body.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of joining of parts of modular furniture or furnishing accessories by means of the joining device according to  claim 1 , wherein the method comprises the steps of:\n inserting the joining device in a groove or pocket formed in the thickness of one of the components to be joined, with the front portion of the bushing projecting outside said groove or pocket and inserted in a further pocket formed in the thickness of the other component to be joined; rotationally actuating the cam mechanism exerting a thrust action on the slider to impose an expansion of the bushing to exert an action of radial pressure on the lateral surface of said groove or pocket and simultaneous expansion of said at least one portion of the casing or container body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 403.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15517531', '15303884', '12317076', '15579734', '14427203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7843749811175696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5587931350219395
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7618167965080067
- Mean Citation Score: 256.493776
- Max Citation Score: 499.89276
- Similarity Product: 432.3367152001262

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

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