PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405892
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["065", "134400"]

Abstract:
Processes and systems for producing molten glass using submerged combustion melters, including densifying an initial composition comprising vitrifiable particulate solids and interstitial gas to form a densified composition comprising the solids by removing a portion of the interstitial gas from the composition. The initial composition is passed from an initial environment having a first pressure through a second environment having a second pressure higher than the first pressure to form a composition being densified. Any fugitive particulate solids escaping from the composition being densified are captured and recombined with the composition being densified to form the densified composition. The densified composition is fed into a feed inlet of a turbulent melting zone of a melter vessel and converted into turbulent molten material using at least one submerged combustion burner in the turbulent melting zone.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of introducing a substantially solid form of a glass-forming material into a submerged combustion melter with a feeder system, the method comprising:\n providing the submerged combustion melter, wherein the submerged combustion melter comprises a melt chamber comprising a floor, a roof, and a least one wall, wherein the floor, the roof, and the at least one wall at least partially define an interior of the melt chamber; disposing the feeder system proximate the at least one wall of the melt chamber; receiving the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material in a feed chamber of the feeder system, wherein the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material comprises an initial portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material and a subsequent portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; advancing the initial portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material from the feed chamber, wherein the initial portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material is advanced with a screw feeder at least partially disposed in the feed chamber, wherein advancing the initial portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material simultaneously compresses the initial portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material into an initial compressed portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; conveying the initial compressed portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material into a seal section disposed at an end of the screw feeder, wherein the seal section is sealed from the submerged combustion melter via at least the initial compressed portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; advancing the subsequent portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material from the feed chamber, wherein the subsequent portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material is advanced with the screw feeder, wherein advancing the subsequent portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material simultaneously compresses the subsequent portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material into a subsequent compressed portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; conveying the subsequent compressed portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material into the seal section; and releasing the initial compressed portion of the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material from the seal section and into the interior of the melt chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01449
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13540704', '15358286', '13633979', '15272703', '14752556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7901742202999109
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5946584575025873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7706226440201785
- Mean Citation Score: 360.519336
- Max Citation Score: 466.66006
- Similarity Product: 361.1223117075777

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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