PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16242436
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["156", "245000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a composite article is disclosed that involves providing a press having first and second platens, a cellulosic fiber substrate having a first thickness, and a layer of material such as a wood veneer, foil, or non-creped paper, where the layer of material has a thickness less than the thickness of the cellulosic fiber substrate. A layer of bonding material is placed onto the cellulosic fiber substrate or the layer of material, and the layer of material is placed onto the cellulosic fiber substrate so that the bonding material is between the layer of material and the cellulosic fiber substrate. The cellulosic fiber substrate and layer of material are placed between the first and second platens, and at least one of the first and second platens is moved toward the other of the first and second platens to deform the cellulosic fiber substrate and layer of material into a predetermined configuration while bonding the layer of material to the cellulosic fiber substrate without cracking or wrinkling the layer of material.

Claim (Index 31):
A method of making a composite article, comprising the steps of:\n heating and pre-moisturizing a cellulosic fiber substrate; placing the cellulosic fiber substrate and a wood veneer in a press without pre-moisturizing the wood veneer; deforming and bonding the cellulosic fiber substrate and the wood veneer together under application of heat and pressure to form a composite article having opposite sides; and wetting the composite article to raise the moisture content of the wood veneer, wherein the cellulosic fiber substrate is continuous and has an upper surface, wherein the wood veneer comprises a plurality of wood veneer strips collectively covering the upper surface of the cellulosic fiber substrate, and wherein the composite article has a surface comprising a planar central portion extending along a first plane, a first planar side portion and a second planar side portion positioned at the opposite sides of the composite article and extending in a second plane that is spaced apart from the first plane, a first angled wall connecting a first side of the planar central portion to the first planar side portion, and a second angled wall connecting a second side of the planar central portion to the second planar side portion, the first and second planar side portions and the first and second angled walls each extending an entire length of the composite article.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15168949', '11716620', '10291757', '11976137', '13419068']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.914083968629512
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.572330264248161
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.879908598191377
- Mean Citation Score: 363.302948
- Max Citation Score: 459.78555
- Similarity Product: 418.9051198972195

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