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 1):
A method for using a perforated fabric in a manufacturing process, comprising:\n receiving a perforated paint roller fabric material, the perforated fabric material having a plurality of perforations through which adhesive may flow; using a fabric-coating applicator to apply a fabric adhesive onto a portion of the paint roller cover fabric material, and into the plurality of perforations and into interstitial spaces of the fabric material, to yield a length of coated fabric; winding an inner strip and an outer strip about a mandrel in offset relation; using a strip-coating applicator to apply a strip adhesive to at least a portion of the outer strip as it is wound about the mandrel; simultaneously with the step of applying the strip adhesive to the outer strip, receiving a portion of the coated paint roller fabric material at the outer strip and winding the length of coated fabric about at least the outer strip to form a paint roller tube; applying compression to the paint roller tube; and, cutting the paint roller tube into like lengths.

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): 0.8968322131342873
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5361604736286366
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8607650391837222
- Mean Citation Score: 261.0018
- Max Citation Score: 378.81082
- Similarity Product: 368.20149897320033

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