PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962425
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["198", "370030"]

Abstract:
Article sorting equipment of the invention comprises a flat conveyor of the chain type having carrier links configured to convey articles towards sorting outlets in a certain conveying direction. The links are mounted to slide on the chain transversely relative to the conveying direction and the sorting outlets are disposed under the links of the chain, one after another in the conveying direction. The links are also arranged to come out from under the articles when they are slid so as to cause the articles to fall into the sorting outlets. A monitoring and control unit for monitoring and controlling the sorting equipment is also configured to cause the links to slide as a function of the sorting outlets into which the articles are to be sorted.

Claim (Index 1):
An article sorting equipment comprising a flat conveyor of the chain type having carrier slats configured to convey articles towards sorting outlets in a certain conveying direction, said carrier slats being mounted to slide on the chain transversely relative to said conveying direction between a deployed position and a retracted position, said article sorting equipment being characterized in that the sorting outlets are disposed under the carrier slats of the chain, one after another in said conveying direction when the carrier slats are in the deployed position, and said carrier slats are arranged to come out from under the articles when they are slid into the retracted position so as to cause the articles to fall into the sorting outlets, the sorting equipment further comprising a monitoring and control unit configured to cause the carrier slats to slide as a function of the sorting outlets into which the articles are to be sorted, and in that the conveyor further comprises an abutment of the \u201ccomb\u201d type on the chain that is configured to allow the carrier slats to slide and to prevent the transverse movement of the articles on the slats beyond the abutment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0625
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15920816', '11568478', '13299421', '14376480', '15023866']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7336248817553342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4695892390242397
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7072213174822248
- Mean Citation Score: 220.41291
- Max Citation Score: 229.63824
- Similarity Product: 167.64892271043774

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

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