PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881716
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["019", "064500"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for producing continuous web or sliver of milkweed fibers without the use of conventional carding machines is disclosed. The method generally includes feeding raw materials including milkweed fibers into the apparatus, transferring the milkweed fibers to a sliver collecting net, and producing the slivers on the surface of the sliver collecting net. The slivers can be separated from the sliver collecting net.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus to produce slivers of milkweed fibers comprising:\n an inlet configured to receive air and raw materials, the raw materials including milkweed fibers; a blower fan, the blower fan being disposed along a top portion of the apparatus, the blower fan being configured to aerate and align the milkweed fibers; a sliver collecting net, wherein slivers of milkweed fibers are retained by the net as air exits the apparatus through the net; and a plurality of gaps, wherein:\n the gaps are located along a bottom portion of the apparatus, and \n milkweed seeds and other impurities present in the raw materials that are heavier than the milkweed fibers precipitate and pass through the gaps.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65116
- Patent Class: 19.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12263193', '10953191', '12739014', '10582866', '14061772']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5617028943808553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5031960986386413
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5558522148066338
- Mean Citation Score: 151.731484
- Max Citation Score: 161.10298
- Similarity Product: 89.2058072328973

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

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