PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756967
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["406", "136000"]

Abstract:
A process for pressurizing bulk material in an apparatus for pressurizing bulk material in a hopper; wherein the hopper is configured as a lock hopper containing a bulk material, wherein the apparatus comprises a source of pressurized gas, lines to convey the pressurized gas from the source of pressurized gas to one or more inlets of the lock hopper, a valve arrangement arranged in the lines, wherein the process is characterized in that said valve arrangement comprises at least two valves arranged in parallel, each valve being connected to a downstream Laval tuyere, and in that said valves are controlled to open in an operating sequence to provide pressurizing gas with an adjusted gas flow rate to the lock hopper.

Claim (Index 4):
The process as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the Laval tuyeres in the valve arrangement have different inner cross-sections and wherein the operating sequence comprises opening and closing the valves of the valve arrangement allowing for further adjusting the actual gas flow rate of the pressurizing gas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06452
- Patent Class: 406.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15508217', '12742816', '12583990', '13266300', '13266288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6468286272131581
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5307984783358201
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6352256123254243
- Mean Citation Score: 216.238028
- Max Citation Score: 335.4843
- Similarity Product: 250.22113405278327

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

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