PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15902306
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["251", "327000"]

Abstract:
A wedge guide has two wedge surfaces. The first angled surface engages a first seat retainer positioned on one side of a gate to lock the first seat retainer in a first pocket. The wedge guide has a second angled surface that engages a second seat retainer on the other side of the gate that locks the second seat retainer in a second pocket. The wedge guide does not affect the movement of the seats that move axially between the gate and the respective seat retainers. Two wedge guides are preferably utilized on opposite non-sealing sides of the gate so that the gate slides between them.

Claim (Index 17):
A wedge guide assembly for a gate valve, comprising:\n said gate valve comprising a gate movable to open and close a flow bore through a valve body, two seat assemblies surrounding said flow bore, said gate being mounted between said two seat assemblies, each of said two seat assemblies comprising a seat retainer and a seat wherein said seat slidingly moves with respect to seat retainer, said seat of each of said two seat assemblies being movable axially between said gate and said seat retainer, said valve body defining two pockets on either side of said gate, said seat retainer of each of said two seat assemblies being inserted into one of said two pockets; and two wedge guides, each wedge guide comprising two wedge surfaces, said two wedge surfaces of each wedge guide engaging respective surfaces on said seat retainer of said two seat assemblies to prevent said seat retainer of said two seat assemblies from moving with respect to said valve body, said gate being mounted between said two wedge guides.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13462
- Patent Class: 251.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13740607', '12701258', '12248610', '10423257', '11588685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7079937477806457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4693770690662807
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6841320799092092
- Mean Citation Score: 225.15297400000003
- Max Citation Score: 239.02129
- Similarity Product: 201.70430263492585

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

Dataset: test