PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007792
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["269", "001000"]

Abstract:
A frame apparatus for holding a flexible lance positioning mechanism adjacent to and spaced from a heat exchanger tube sheet includes an upper guide rail, a lower guide rail, a positioner rail supported from one of the upper and lower guide rails and guided by the other of the upper and lower guide rails, and a rail clamp assembly fastened to a portion of a tube sheet. This rail clamp assembly has a flat plate member fastened to the tube sheet, a base plate spaced from the flat plate by one or more threaded shafts, and one or more clamp fingers rotatably fastened to the base plate. Each clamp fingers is operable to rotate toward the base plate when the base plate is drawn against the flat plate or beam member by rotating the threaded shaft, thus drawing the rail securely to the flat plate of the clamp assembly.

Claim (Index 7):
A frame apparatus for holding a flexible lance positioning mechanism adjacent to and spaced from a heat exchanger tube sheet, the apparatus comprising:\n at least an upper guide rail; a positioner support rail supported from the upper guide rail; and a plurality of rail clamp arm assemblies each configured to be fastened to a portion of the heat exchanger tube sheet so that each of the rail clamp arm assemblies operably holds the guide rail in a fixed position with respect to the tube sheet, each rail clamp arm assembly comprising:\n an elongated beam having a screw clamp at a proximal end of the beam for fastening the elongated beam to the heat exchanger tube sheet; and \n a rail clamp assembly at a distal end of the beam operable to releasably receive, hold and clamp a portion of the guide rail therein, wherein the clamp assembly includes a base plate fastened to the distal end of the beam, a static clamp jaw fastened to the base plate, and a hooked clamp finger rotatably fastened to the base plate opposite the static clamp jaw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39394
- Patent Class: 269.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15195683', '15487655', '14808322', '15178060', '14873873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7536821276848574
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5175606703361876
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7300699819499905
- Mean Citation Score: 231.26197
- Max Citation Score: 264.3625
- Similarity Product: 202.0489782705903

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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