PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937321
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["034", "134000"]

Abstract:
A single pass, multiple stage, rotary drum heat exchange dryer ( 22 ) is provided for drying products such as distillers grains and includes a tubular shell ( 64 ) with a moist product inlet ( 66 ), an opposed dried product outlet ( 70 ), and an internal drying chamber ( 78 ). The chamber ( 78 ) includes a convection drying first stage ( 80 ), and conductive drying final curing stage ( 82 ) an intermediate stage ( 84 ); the intermediate stage ( 84 ) is subdivided into a plurality of contiguous drying zones ( 86 - 92 ). The zones ( 86 - 92 ) include individual flighting assemblies ( 164 ) which are of substantially the same density and heat transfer ratios.

Claim (Index 1):
A rotary drum dryer, comprising:\n an elongated, hollow drum having a moist product inlet and a spaced dried product outlet, with a drying chamber between the inlet and the outlet; and fighting within said drum dividing the chamber into a plurality of drying stages along the length of the chamber, including a first stage adjacent said inlet, a final stage adjacent said outlet, and at least one intermediate stage between the first and the final stages, said intermediate stage including a plurality of drying zones arranged in successive order from a point proximal to said first stage and extending towards the final stage, each of said zones configured to define a heat transfer ratio calculated by dividing the total heat-transferring surface area within the zone by the volume of the zone, each of said zones having approximately the same heat transfer ratio.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80263
- Patent Class: 34.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12051560', '10386070', '14487536', '11953679', '09293198']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7230767053816606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4957942911302884
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7003484639565234
- Mean Citation Score: 237.29134600000003
- Max Citation Score: 248.05547
- Similarity Product: 163.78467324888825

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

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