PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16409599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["425", "378200"]

Abstract:
A system for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that is adapted for providing a polymer melt and dividing the polymer melt into a plurality of streams (e.g., at least six or eight streams) to increase a surface area of the polymer melt. The plurality of streams is then exposed to a pressure that is below approximately 5 millibars. The streams are then recombined into a single polymer stream and formed into bulked continuous carpet filament. In various embodiments, an extruder, such as a multi-screw extruder, is used to divide the polymer melt into the plurality of streams.

Claim (Index 25):
A manufacturing system for manufacturing carpet filament, the system comprising:\n (A) a washing section that is adapted for washing a group of polymer flakes, the group of flakes comprising a first plurality of flakes that consist essentially of PET and a second plurality of flakes that do not consist essentially of PET; (B) a purifying section that is adapted for: (1) after the group of polymer flakes is washed by the washing section: (a) scanning the washed group of polymer flakes to identify the first plurality of flakes; and (b) separating the first plurality of flakes from the second plurality of flakes;\n (2) melting the first plurality of flakes to produce a polymer melt; \n (3) extruding the polymer melt into at least 6 different streams of polymer melt; \n (4) removing one or more volatile organic compounds from the at least 6 different streams of polymer melt by simultaneously exposing at least a respective portion of each of the at least 6 different streams of polymer melt to a pressure of below about 5 millibars; and \n (C) a bulked continuous filament forming section that is adapted for, after the at least 6 different streams of polymer melt are exposed to a pressure of below about 5 millibars, forming polymer from the at least 6 different streams of polymer melt into bulked continuous carpet filament.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81356
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16220733', '16402583', '15204645', '15419955', '16041442']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8097996038225462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6486243384248971
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7936820772827813
- Mean Citation Score: 489.51269400000007
- Max Citation Score: 537.9277
- Similarity Product: 490.8463741943537

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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