PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961044
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["297", "159100"]

Abstract:
Mobile folding restaurant booth style benches are provided, which may be arranged in opposed pairs to form restaurant style booths. An individual bench incorporates a mechanism for shifting the weight of the bench between a mobile base, which may be supported by swivel casters, and a stationary base, which may be supported by non-slip feet, actuated by pivoting a bench seat down from a folded storage position to an unfolded seating position. The weight shifting mechanism may include an engagement member, which is initially spaced apart from an actuator at a folded angle of the seat, and which contacts and begins transmitting force and movement to the actuator at a partially unfolded angle of the seat. Preferably, the bench further includes a biasing component that biases the stationary base upward relative to the mobile base.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of arranging restaurant booth style seating using two mobile folding benches and a table, each mobile folding bench comprising a seat comprising a sitting surface configured to seat the human occupant; a mobile base comprising at least one mobile support member adapted to support the mobile base on a floor surface and to facilitate lateral movement of the mobile base relative to the floor surface; a stationary base movably coupled to the mobile base to permit at least vertical movement of the stationary base relative to the mobile base, the stationary base comprising at least one stationary support member adapted to support the stationary base on a generally horizontal floor surface and to inhibit lateral movement of the stationary base relative to the floor surface, the seat being supported by and pivotally coupled to the stationary base to move between a seating position in which the sitting surface is at a generally horizontal sitting angle and the mobile support member is above the floor surface and a folded position in which the sitting surface is at a generally vertical folded angle and the stationary support member is above the floor surface; an engagement member operatively connected to the seat and configured to transmit a lifting force from the stationary base to lift the mobile base relative to the stationary base when the seat is moved from the folded position to the seating position, so that the folding bench is supported on the floor surface by the stationary support member; and a seat lifting mechanism operatively connected to the seat and configured to transmit a lifting force to the seat for assisting with the moving of the seat to the folded position; the method comprising\n moving a first one of the benches having a first seat in the folded position, having a first mobile base engaging a floor surface, to a first position along a first side of the table; unfolding the first seat to the seating position to cause a first mobile base of the first bench to disengage from the floor surface and a first stationary base of the first bench to engage the floor surface; moving a second one of the benches having a second seat in the folded position, having a second mobile base engaging a floor surface, to a second along a second side of the table; and unfolding the second seat to the seating position to cause a second mobile base of the second bench to disengage from the floor surface and a second stationary base of the second bench to engage the floor surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86076
- Patent Class: 297.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15338148', '15048596', '11675111', '13900311', '15465949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7766602567199584
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.587409325854552
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7577351636334178
- Mean Citation Score: 356.925764
- Max Citation Score: 555.8059
- Similarity Product: 469.81187152699823

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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