PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["210", "400000"]

Abstract:
A vacuum belt filter including a belt with a plurality of vacuum boxes, filter means being arranged to the vacuum boxes, drive means for moving the belt, and a suction station for creating an underpressure to the vacuum boxes at the suction station. In order to enable liquid-solid separation at low energy costs and long service interval of the vacuum belt filter, the filter means is in the form of a capillary filter, each vacuum box being provided with such a filter and each vacuum box being provided with an outlet having a check valve enabling a fluid flow from the inside space of the vacuum box to the outside of the vacuum box for creating an underpressure in the vacuum box when the suction station is connected to the vacuum box.

Claim (Index 85):
The vacuum belt filter according to  claim 84 , wherein the rotating distribution valve arrangement comprises blocking elements arranged at the rotating periphery of the rotating distribution valve arrangement, the blocking elements being arranged at a distance from each other corresponding to the distance between the outlets of adjacent vacuum boxes, the blocking elements being adapted to close the check valves to prevent fluid from flowing out from the outlets of the vacuum boxes when the blocking elements are engaged with the check valves.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35593
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15559978', '12809939', '12936387', '15539164', '11798649']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7855301357589645
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4828111839203579
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7552582405751038
- Mean Citation Score: 151.981782
- Max Citation Score: 165.06992
- Similarity Product: 109.9367255597496

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

Dataset: test