PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16134283
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["210", "791000"]

Abstract:
A filtrate collector element includes a hollow body forming a first opening portion, a second opening portion, and an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion forms a conduit between the first opening portion and the second opening portion. The collector element may be coupled with a pressure filter plate element. The outer dimension of the first opening portion is smaller than the inner dimension of the second opening portion, such that first opening portion of a preceding collector element can be at least partly nested in the second opening portion of a subsequent collector element. A pressure filter plate element, a horizontal pressure filter, a method for providing a continuous filtrate conduit and a method for operating a pressure filter are also concerned.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for providing a continuous filtrate conduit between adjacent plate elements of a horizontal pressure filter, comprising the steps of:\n providing a horizontal pressure filter having multiple plate elements, wherein the pressure filter has a closed state and an open state, such that in the closed state, adjacent plate elements are pressed substantially against each other for separating filtrate from a slurry, thus producing a solids cake between adjacent plate elements, and in the open state, adjacent plate elements are retracted to a distance from each other for enabling removal of the solid cake from between adjacent plate elements, providing, for each plate element, at least one collector element for forming a vertical duct between adjacent filter plates, having a hollow body forming a first opening portion, a second opening portion, and an intermediate portion, wherein the intermediate portion forms, within the hollow body, a conduit in a press direction between the first opening portion and the second opening portion, wherein the collector element further comprises a coupling portion for coupling the collector element with a pressure filter plate element, said coupling portion extending from the body of the collector element in a transverse direction to the press direction, and having a passage for providing fluid communication between the inside of the hollow body and a drainage outlet of a pressure filter plate element, wherein the outer dimension of the first opening portion is smaller than the inner dimension of the second opening portion, such that first opening portion of a preceding collector element can be at least partly nested in the second opening portion of a subsequent collector element, wherein the first opening portion and the second opening portion are arranged eccentrically with respect to each other, such that, when a first opening portion of a preceding collector element is inserted into a second opening portion of a subsequent collector element, a space having an eccentric annular or crescent cross-sectional shape is formed between an outer surface of the hollow body of a preceding collector element and an inner surface of the hollow body of the of the subsequent collector element, and wherein a curved section being arranged on the hollow body such that a concave section is arranged on the outer surface thereof, said curved section being arranged on a transition region between the first opening portion and the intermediate portion so that, when a collector element is inserted into a subsequent collector element, the curved section opposes the passage of the subsequent collector element to provide a flow route having a continuous shape for the filtrate from the passage to the inside of the hollow body, and attaching the coupling portion of the collector elements to the plate elements, such that the passage of the coupling portion is coupled with the drainage outlet of the plate element, so as to provide fluid communication between the filtrate vat and the inside of the hollow body of the collector element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35714
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09868425', '14428042', '14366998', '13789784', '10702495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.751460531629152
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4794628686857879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7242607653348156
- Mean Citation Score: 107.409296
- Max Citation Score: 112.18837
- Similarity Product: 68.26678405971528

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

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