PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893409
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["404", "062000"]

Abstract:
A field-assembly dowel basket for concrete construction configured for in-the-field assembly from a small number of component parts, including dowels, dowel sleeves that loosely house the dowels, “W” shaped frame wires that support the dowel sleeves, straight shipping wires that connect dowel basket sections together, and “T” connectors that join the frame sections to the shipping wires. Various embodiments of the field-assembly dowel basket may use different types of dowel sleeves, such as open-channel sleeves, closed-channel sleeves, and sealed-channel sleeves in which tape or another suitable cover is used to seal open-channel sleeves. The dowel sleeves may house different types of dowels, such as rectangular plate dowels and round rod dowels.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for constructing a concrete structure at a construction site, comprising:\n manufacturing or obtaining components including wire segments, dowels and dowel sleeves of field-assembly dowel baskets excluding welds attaching the wire components to each other; transporting the components in bulk quantities to the construction site; assembling a dowel basket of desired length from the components at the construction site without welding of the wire segments to each other, wherein the dowel basket comprises a plurality of dowel basket assemblies connected together to create a dowel basket of desired length, wherein each dowel assembly comprises:\n a plurality of dowels elongated in a lateral direction, \n a plurality of dowel sleeves elongated in the lateral direction configured to loosely house the dowels, \n a plurality of wire segments, \n a plurality of connectors attachable to the wire segments, \n wherein the wire segments of each dowel assembly comprise a pair of opposing frame wires; \n wherein each dowel sleeve comprises a pair of recesses, each receiving a portion of one of the opposing frame wires through a snap-in interference fit, to position the pair of opposing frame wires to extend in a transverse direction perpendicular to the lateral direction spaced apart from each other in the lateral direction; \n positioning the dowel basket at the edge of a first concrete slab to be poured; positioning a concrete form around dowels of the dowel basket, wherein the form comprises notches configured to accommodate the dowels; pouring the first concrete slab so that a first portion of each dowel basket is embedded in the first slab and a second portion of each dowel basket extends from the first slab; after the first slab sets, removing the form and pouring a second concrete slab adjacent to the first concrete slab over the second portions of the dowel basket so that the dowels span a joint between the first and second concrete slabs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84058
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399892', '11056313', '11187767', '13116851', '15426865']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7505018870670269
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.568719492359784
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7323236475963026
- Mean Citation Score: 339.8449740000001
- Max Citation Score: 493.79614
- Similarity Product: 372.6380458896672

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