PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259577
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "778000"]

Abstract:
A spiral conveyor for positively driving a conveyor belt along a helical path. The spiral conveyor includes a rotating cylindrical tower with parallel drive members extending from the bottom to the top of the tower on its periphery. Each drive member includes an outwardly protruding ridge that varies in height from the bottom to the top of the tower. The variations in height facilitate the belt's entry onto and exit from the tower and robust, positive driving engagement with the inside edge of the belt along the majority of its path along the tower.

Claim (Index 4):
A spiral conveyor as in  claim 3  wherein a portion of the lengths of the parallel ridges in the belt entrance portion proximate the bottom for an upgoing spiral or at the top for a downgoing spiral are at a constant second distance from the vertical axis, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81818
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14386036', '13805608', '16011031', '12834314', '15224809']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.816036824388155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5968920595551288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7941223479048524
- Mean Citation Score: 465.425552
- Max Citation Score: 578.0956
- Similarity Product: 510.2055773643494

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