PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["198", "431000"]

Abstract:
A method and an apparatus are provided for the grouped arrangement, orientation and packaging of stacked food products like patty stacks. The method includes feeding a food product by a first feed belt in the direction of a first X-axis, and then ejecting the food product onto a second feed belt to form stacked food products. The method also includes transporting the stacked food products by the second feed belt along a Y-axis generally perpendicular to the X-axis and in the direction of an orientation mask which is arranged above the second feed belt. The stacked food products are oriented by contacting the orientation mask. The oriented food products may therefore be grouped together in oriented rows for packaging when further moved along the Y-axis by the second feed belt. The method and apparatus enable rapid orienting of various types of food products that are typically stacked and packaged.

Claim (Index 7):
An apparatus for the grouped arrangement and orientation of stacked food products such as patty stacks, the apparatus comprising:\n a first feed belt for feeding food products in a first direction of movement in the direction of an X-axis and for depositing the food products on to a second feed belt to form stacked food products, a second feed belt for feeding the stacked food products in a second direction of movement along a Y-axis which is arranged at an angle of substantially 90\u00b0 relative to the X-axis, and an orientation mask which is arranged above the second feed belt and which is positioned such that the stacked food products can be introduced into at least one compartment of the orientation mask and thereby oriented on the second feed belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27536
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10075596', '11327836', '12606846', '12997379', '15668057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7182275793975096
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4701170853289724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.693416529990656
- Mean Citation Score: 182.504228
- Max Citation Score: 198.0593
- Similarity Product: 130.91804992268086

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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