PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["004", "655000"]

Abstract:
A connector for use with a disposable flexible liner installed in a spa basin is provided to bridge between an overflow opening provided in the liner and an overflow aperture provided in an upright wall of the basin, so that when the soaking solution containable in an interior volume of the basin exceeds a prescribed height, the soaking solution is enabled to drain out of the interior volume through the liner at the communicated openings/apertures. A conduit formed by the connector for insertion into the basin to bridge between the communicated openings/apertures is arranged for a friction fit in an overflow throat extending from the overflow aperture defined in the basin.

Claim (Index 1):
A connector for bridging between an overflow aperture in a basin and an overflow opening in a disposable flexible liner which is disposed in a working position in the basin to contain a liquid;\n the basin having a bottom surface and an upright peripheral wall surface extending upwardly from the bottom surface to a top rim of the basin, the peripheral wall and the bottom surface collectively defining an interior volume of the basin within which the liquid can be contained; a drain hole defined in the bottom surface of the basin so that the liquid can exit the basin by gravity; the liner covering the bottom surface including the drain hole and the peripheral wall surface of the basin in the working position of the liner so that the liner forms a receptacle for retaining the liquid; the receptacle formed by the liner having a floor portion and a peripheral wall portion extending upwardly therefrom which in the working position are registered with the bottom surface of the basin and the peripheral wall surface of the basin respectively; the overflow aperture of the basin being defined in the peripheral wall surface of the basin at a location spaced above the bottom surface to enable the liquid to exit the interior volume of the basin when the liquid exceeds a prescribed height therein; an overflow drainage conduit located externally of the interior volume of the basin for guiding the liquid which has exited the interior volume of the basin away therefrom; a throat fluidically communicating the overflow aperture and the overflow drainage conduit; the throat having an interior surface which encompasses a direction of overflow through the throat from the overflow aperture to the overflow drainage conduit; the overflow opening of the liner being formed through a thickness of the liner from a first inner side of the liner delimiting an interior of the liner for retaining the liquid and a second outer side substantially in contact with the basin in the working position of the liner; the overflow opening of the liner being defined in the peripheral wall portion so as to register with the overflow aperture of the basin in the working position of the liner so that when the liquid retained by the liner within the basin exceeds the prescribed height, the liquid is enabled to drain out of the liner via the overflow opening of the liner and out of the interior volume of the basin via the overflow aperture which is communicated with the overflow opening of the liner; in combination with the basin and the liner, the connector comprising: a conduit adapted to convey the liquid from a first end to a second insertion end between which is defined a path for overflow through the conduit; the conduit having an interior surface which is exposable to the liquid and an opposite outer surface; the conduit forming a fluidic seal with the liner at the overflow opening therein; the connector bridging between the overflow opening and the overflow aperture in the basin and extending past the overflow aperture into the throat of the basin in an operating position of the connector in which the first end of the conduit is in fluidic communication with the interior of the liner and the second insertion end of the conduit is located in or adjacent the throat, so that when the liquid retained by the liner within the basin exceeds the prescribed height the liquid is enabled to drain out of the interior volume of the basin without leaking between the second outer side of the liner and the peripheral wall surface of the basin; the outer surface of the conduit defining a transverse periphery of the conduit, which is transverse relative to the path for overflow through the conduit, that is sized and shaped to substantially match a void defined by the interior surface of the throat so that in the operating position the outer surface of the conduit is in contact with the interior surface of the throat in a manner so as to support the conduit in the throat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94915
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14962930', '11382548', '12881272', '14622584', '15608916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7885799955607684
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4959428399355091
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7593162799982425
- Mean Citation Score: 207.285558
- Max Citation Score: 242.5572
- Similarity Product: 179.95037396063805

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

Dataset: test