PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058438
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "002000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for separating for franking/printing flat items of mail, which are supplied individually in a feeder or are guided at a front edge lying on one another as a stack and are each gripped at the underside of the stack by a separating device, separated and transported onward in a conveying direction, wherein the separating device is formed to pick up and transport the respectively lowest item of mail at the front end in the conveying direction for onward transport, and includes driven conveying drums, mounted transversely with respect to the conveying direction and arranged one after another underneath the :to stack and forming a conveying plane, and forming a passage opening with the lower end of a positioning wall of the feeder and the conveying plane, and a sweeping device acting in a sweeping manner at least on the lowest item of mailafter the passage opening.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein the sweeping elements of the sweeping device act in a sweeping manner on the lowest item of mail on the conveying drum and have an elastically flexible sweeping member set relative to the conveying plane at an acute angle counter to the conveying direction, which lines up in a sweeping manner with a tower front edge on the lowest item of mail.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09333
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16058201', '11587717', '10325863', '15795560', '12938871']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7492035955633345
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.468840496338208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7211672856408218
- Mean Citation Score: 158.85456000000005
- Max Citation Score: 203.03261
- Similarity Product: 157.70067224473777

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

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