PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767952
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["156", "358000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus ( 1 ) for labelling a package ( 2 ) including an advancing device ( 3 ), a dispensing device ( 4 ), an application device ( 6 ) and a control device ( 7 ). The application device includes a punch ( 10 ) having a punch shank ( 8 ) with a second shank end ( 8 b ) to which a punch foot ( 9 ) for moving a dispensed label ( 5 ) from at least one receiving position (A, A′) to at least one delivery position (B) is connected, and a plurality of motors ( 11, 12, 13, 14 ) controlled by the control device, each of which is configured to move the punch shank in a direction parallel to one of at least three different directions (X, Y, Z, C). The motors are mounted such that during simultaneous movement of the punch shank by the motors, none of the motors change position relative to another of the motors. A method for labelling a package is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 34):
A method for labelling a package using an apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the package is transported in a transport direction, a label is dispensed in a dispensing direction, the dispensed label is picked up in a receiving position by a punch foot of a punch comprising the punch foot and a punch shank connected thereto, the punch shank with the dispensed label picked up by the punch foot is moved by a plurality of motors until the dispensed label is applied on the package by the punch foot in a delivery position the punch shank, in order to move the dispensed label from the receiving position to the delivery position, is moved simultaneously in at least three movement directions by at least three of the motors, the motors, which bring about the simultaneous movement of the punch shank in the at least three movement directions, do not change their position relative to one another during movement of the punch shank in the at least three movement directions, and at least three motors are simultaneously actuated to perform the movement of the punch shank in the at least three movement directions, said at least three motors being selected from a group consisting of:\n a first motor that brings about a translational movement in a first direction that is orthogonal to the extension direction, \n a second motor that brings about a translational movement in a second direction that is orthogonal to the extension direction and to the first direction, \n a third motor that brings about a translational movement in a third direction parallel to the extension direction, and \n a fourth motor that brings about a rotational movement in a fourth direction about an axis of rotation, which extends parallel to the extension direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1413
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10030419', '13508928', '12729110', '14235204', '14235222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8830591486851433
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5011937531441777
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8448726091310468
- Mean Citation Score: 156.14394599999997
- Max Citation Score: 159.38196000000005
- Similarity Product: 87.46348886364703

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