PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869799
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["052", "378000"]

Abstract:
A floor dowel sleeve is provided that includes a rectangular-shaped body portion having a cavity that is configured to receive a dowel plate that spans across a seam between concrete slabs. A pair of break-away interior walls extend within the cavity from the opening to the end wall of the sleeve. The interior walls extend between two opposing (horizontal) walls of the exterior side walls and are continuously spaced from the other two opposing (vertical) walls of the exterior side walls. The body portion is configured to receive the dowel plate in the cavity between the break-away interior walls, where the break-away interior walls are configured to at least partially break-away from the exterior side walls upon lateral horizontal movement of the dowel plate within the cavity.

Claim (Index 14):
A floor dowel sleeve assembly that spans between and vertically supports concrete slabs at a seam between the concrete slabs, said floor dowel sleeve assembly comprising:\n a rectangular-shaped dowel plate having a first portion configure to be cast into a first concrete slab; a rectangular-shaped sleeve having four exterior side walls and an end wall that together surround a cavity that has an end opposing the end wall, wherein the sleeve is configured to be cast into a second concrete slab adjacent to and forming a seam with the first concrete slab; a pair of break-away interior walls that extend within the cavity at a spaced distance from lateral walls of the exterior side walls, wherein the interior walls integrally extend between opposing upper and lower walls of the exterior side walls; a plurality of crush members that integrally protrude from the end wall within the cavity toward the opening; and wherein the second portion of the dowel plate is movably inserted in the cavity between the break-away interior walls and in abutting contact with the opposing upper and lower walls and a distal portion of the plurality of crush members, wherein the break-away interior walls are configured to break-away from the opposing upper and lower walls upon lateral horizontal movement of the dowel plate, and wherein the plurality of crush member are configured to compress toward the end wall upon longitudinal horizontal movement of the dowel plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26667
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15426865', '14160609', '11400006', '11056313', '14540288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8250890731376083
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5131987484894315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7939000406727906
- Mean Citation Score: 289.456164
- Max Citation Score: 325.24213
- Similarity Product: 280.0168606432904

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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