PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["156", "280000"]

Abstract:
A paint roller manufacturing system includes a cover dispenser for continuously dispensing a windable width of paint roller cover fabric, a fabric supporting and advancing device for supporting the fabric and maintaining a width-wise dimension of the paint roller cover fabric as the fabric advances, a fabric coating applicator for applying a coating to the back side of the paint roller cover fabric while the fabric supporting and advancing device maintains the fabric in a width-wise dimension, and a compressing roller positioned downstream of the fabric coating applicator and configured to apply a compressive force on the coating after it has been applied to the back side of the paint roller cover fabric and while the fabric is supported by the fabric supporting and advancing device. In two-strip embodiments, first and second strip dispensers continuously dispense a first and second windable width of strip material. A guide system guides the first and second strip coming from the first and second strip dispensers to be wound about a mandrel and guides the coated paint roller cover fabric from the fabric supporting device to be wound about the first and second strips. An adhesive applicator is configured to apply adhesive on substantially all of the outer side of the first and second windable strips and positioned to apply adhesive to the outer side of the first and second windable strips upstream of a location where the coated paint roller cover fabric is wound about the first and second strips.

Claim (Index 3):
A paint roller manufacturing system comprising:\n cover dispenser for continuously dispensing a windable width of paint roller cover fabric, the paint roller cover fabric having a back side and an applicator side; fabric supporting and advancing device configured to support the paint roller cover fabric as the paint roller cover fabric advances, back side up, across the fabric supporting device, and configured to maintain a width-wise dimension of the paint roller cover fabric across at least a portion of the fabric supporting and advancing device; fabric coating applicator for applying a coating to the back side of the paint roller cover fabric, the fabric coating application positioned to apply the coating to the back side of the paint roller cover fabric at a location where the fabric supporting and advancing device maintains the width-wise dimension of the paint roller cover fabric; compressing roller positioned downstream of the fabric coating applicator and configured to apply a compressive force on the coating after it has been applied to the back side of the paint roller cover fabric and while the fabric is supported by the fabric supporting and advancing device; a mandrel; first and second strip dispensers for continuously dispensing a first and second windable width of strip material, each of the first and second windable strips of strip material having an inner side and an outer side; guide system for guiding the first and second strip coming from the first and second strip dispensers to be wound about the mandrel and for guiding the coated paint roller cover fabric from the fabric supporting device to be wound about the first and second strips; adhesive applicator configured to apply adhesive on substantially all of the outer side of the first and second windable strips and positioned to apply adhesive to the outer side of the first and second windable strips upstream of a location where the coated paint roller cover fabric is wound about the first and second strips; and compressing and advancing device for applying inward pressure normal to the mandrel on the coated paint roller fabric cover after it is wound about the first and second strips, and for advancing the first and second windable strips and the coated paint roller fabric cover along the mandrel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.1875
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15676507', '12350798', '14789723', '13081114', '13431597']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8976479452641207
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5351406533479264
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8613972160725013
- Mean Citation Score: 261.0018
- Max Citation Score: 378.81082
- Similarity Product: 295.75635823300235

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

Dataset: test