PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "459300"]

Abstract:
A spacing drum comprising: a segment receiving drum section capable of receiving a predetermined number of segments per revolution of the drum from a procession of segments approaching the segment receiving drum section at a segment-feed spacing and a segment-feed speed; a segment releasing drum section capable of releasing the predetermined number of segments at a segment-release spacing and a segment-release speed; and a radial profile flight comprising a continuous arc segment extending across at least portions of the segment receiving drum section and the segment releasing drum section. Associated methods are also provided, including method of changing pitch along a spacing drum progressively with a radial profile flight.

Claim (Index 25):
A method of establishing an exit speed and an exit spacing between members of a procession of units, comprising:\n establishing a procession of units moving at an entrance speed and having an entrance spacing between units of the procession of units; and converting (i) the entrance spacing to an exit spacing, (ii) the entrance speed to an exit speed, or both (i) and (ii), by passing the procession of units through a spacing drum while contacting units of the procession of units with radial profile flights of the spacing drum, at least one of the radial profile flights being defined by an offset arc center and a radius, the radial profile flights being arcuately configured such that continuous contact between a radial profile flight of the radial profile flights and a respective unit is generally maintained during the conversion, whereby the radial profile flights change pitch continuously from an entrance edge of the spacing drum to an exit edge of the spacing drum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15502461', '10698075', '10567194', '11141701', '12158634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7068178175589784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4619625212904806
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6823322879321287
- Mean Citation Score: 151.02112199999996
- Max Citation Score: 156.91653
- Similarity Product: 102.50578540093842

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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