PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884516
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["210", "512100"]

Abstract:
A grit removal unit for a wastewater system including a grit removal chamber with a substantially annular vertical wall. A horizontal annular ring above the chamber bottom extends inwardly from the annular vertical wall, with an influent channel extending into the chamber beneath the ring and an effluent channel above the rim and extending out of the chamber. The influent and effluent channels both have inner side walls with a curved portion, with both curved portions extending through an arc of at least 90 degrees within the chamber annular vertical wall.

Claim (Index 6):
A grit removal unit for a wastewater system, comprising:\n a round grit removal chamber defined by a bottom surface and a substantially annular vertical wall extending up from said bottom surface; a substantially horizontal annular ring extending inwardly from the chamber substantially annular vertical wall to an inner edge having a radius R i , said ring being spaced above said chamber bottom surface and extending around the entirety of the chamber annular vertical wall; an influent channel through an opening in said chamber substantially annular vertical wall beneath said ring, said influent channel having\n one influent side wall substantially tangential to said chamber substantially annular vertical wall at said influent channel opening in said chamber substantially annular vertical wall, and \n an influent inner side wall having a substantially flat portion parallel to said one influent side wall and a curved portion extending between the chamber bottom surface and the ring, said influent inner side wall curved portion having said radius R i  and extending through an arc of at least about 90 degrees. said influent channel having an outlet at an end of the influent inner side wall curved portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14823488', '13837712', '15149760', '13447539', '13130659']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7875935024706758
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5668308376990595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7655172359935142
- Mean Citation Score: 324.492768
- Max Citation Score: 446.1483
- Similarity Product: 434.3319177644134

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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