PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013685
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["427", "212000"]

Abstract:
A system or method for adding dust control solution to a vertically falling first stream of a substantially dry sand-like particulate material, where the first stream has an effective diameter, the system or method includes a stationary, generally horizontal, deflector plate with a drop-off edge, the plate is mounted into the steam whereby the particulate material collides with the plate and cascades from the plate around the drop-off edge to create a second stream of the particulate material having the general shape of the drop-off edge with a reduced stream thickness and nozzles for spraying dust control solution into the second stream, which system or method is preferably for rapid transportation to the site for using the sand-like particular material.

Claim (Index 31):
A system for loading a mass of essentially dry, dust free sand-like particulate material with a D99 particle site of 50-2000 microns into a transport vessel for rapid transportation to the site of use, said system comprises a particle discharge device receiving a supply of said particulate material and discharging a vertical downwardly, unrestrained first stream of free filling particulate material, said first stream having an effective diameter and extending from an upper location downwardly in a gravity controlled path, a fixed generally flat and generally horizontal deflector plate with a peripheral drop-off edge having a selected shape larger than said effective diameter, said plate mounted in a position to intersect said given path of material so the falling particulate material in said first stream drops on said deflector plate and then cascades downwardly from around the peripheral drop-off edge creating a second falling stream of particulate material having a horizontal shape conforming to said selected shape of said peripheral drop-off edge; a plurality of nozzles located below said deflector plate and generally facing said second stream; a pressurized supply of dust control solution to supply pressurized dust control solution to said nozzles for spraying into said second falling stream of said particulate material and a receptacle below said second stream to accumulate a mass of said particulate material coated with said dust control solution.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98438
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12556737', '10825087', '15073840', '15342826', '14669815']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.80700151278328
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4893216329892774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7752335248038797
- Mean Citation Score: 161.604952
- Max Citation Score: 169.77104
- Similarity Product: 114.51655506950378

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

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