PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["118", "309000"]

Abstract:
A particulate duster system includes a duster used to apply particulate matter to a food product moving along a conveyor positioned beneath the duster. The duster is used to uniformly dispense particulate matter onto a moving product conveyor for carrying a food product to be dusted.

Claim (Index 10):
An apparatus for applying particulate matter to a substrate comprising:\n an inlet opening configured to receive the particulate matter; a horizontally oriented particulate auger assembly having a horizontal auger housing provided with a horizontally oriented auger, wherein the horizontally oriented auger includes a first horizontally oriented auger half and a second horizontally oriented auger half, wherein the first horizontally oriented auger half includes a first helical flight that conveys the particulate matter in a first direction and the second horizontally oriented auger half includes a second helical flight that coveys the particulate matter in a second direction, the horizontally oriented auger adapted to convey the particulate matter received from the inlet opening at a center portion of the horizontally oriented particulate auger assembly outwardly along at least a portion of a length of the horizontal auger housing and deposit the particulate matter beneath the horizontal auger housing, the horizontal auger housing including a curved bottom wall formed to include a plurality of apertures adapted to permit the particulate matter conveyed by the horizontally oriented auger to exit below the horizontal auger housing; a particulate sifter assembly positioned beneath the horizontally oriented particulate auger assembly, the particulate sifter assembly including a sifter housing and an upper sifter plate and a lower sifter plate positioned within the sifter housing, wherein at least one of the upper sifter plate and the lower sifter plate moves with respect to the other of the upper sifter plate and the lower sifter plate to sift the particulate matter received from the horizontally oriented particulate auger assembly and release the particulate matter beneath the sifter housing; and wherein movement of one of the sifter plates causes the particulate matter received from the particulate sifter assembly to be deposited below the particulate applicator assembly onto the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15092497', '11465163', '12967271', '11351447', '12283103']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7935194147309553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.598874594367146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7740549326945744
- Mean Citation Score: 253.63244
- Max Citation Score: 510.04187
- Similarity Product: 502.3990014666503

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

Dataset: test