PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876180
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["384", "039000"]

Abstract:
An improved design and method is disclosed that uses a novel nesting linear slide which incorporates machine tool slides or ways into a structural member. The design simplifies the fabrication and assembly of components requiring accurate sliding alignment, such as milling machine bases, saddles, tables and columns. Due to the use of the single piece, which replaces multiple pieces in the prior art, fabrication and assembly costs are also significantly lower. The invention also enables a method of construction utilizing the novel single shape component which simplifies the assembly of machines requiring sliding surfaces with accurate alignment. The invention essentially comprises a single structural element that includes both male and female sliding members. By nesting two of the single structural elements it is possible to create sliding joints for machine tool bases, saddles, tables, and columns, as well as a wide variety of other sliding joints, in an extremely cost-effective manner. The linear slide includes a deformable element that allows for accurate alignment with no play and creates a strongly supported sliding joint.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of forming a sliding joint comprising the steps of:\n forming a linear slide comprising a pair of male slide surfaces and a pair of female slide surfaces wherein said pair of male slide surfaces and said pair of female slide surfaces are formed such that a first length of said linear slide and a second length of said linear slide with the same cross section can be adapted to cooperate in a nested fashion wherein said pair of male slide surfaces of said first length of said linear slide is guided by and moveable relative to said pair of female slide surfaces of said second length of said linear slide in a rectilinear path; including deformable elements integral to said linear slide supporting either said female slide surfaces or said male slide surfaces or both said female and said male slide surfaces; arraigning said first length of said linear slide and said second length of said linear slide in a nested fashion wherein said pair of male slide surfaces of said first length of said linear slide is guided by and moveable relative to said pair of female slide surfaces of said second length of said linear slide in a rectilinear path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88119
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15418713', '13998207', '15522235', '12911216', '11523752']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.746299920011479
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5600371895243446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7276736469627657
- Mean Citation Score: 188.713103
- Max Citation Score: 430.84723
- Similarity Product: 419.2818131389225

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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