PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16449108
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["198", "778000"]

Abstract:
A spiral conveyor system may include a drum associated with a motor, wherein the drum extends from a drum bottom to a drum top. In addition, the system may include a conveyor belt traveling helically about the drum from an entrance end of the drum to an exit end of the drum. Further, the system may include a rib associated with the drum, wherein the rib extends radially from a surface of the drum, and at least one drive face positioned on the rib. The conveyor belt may include at least one belt surface configured to engage the at least one drive face. The length of the rib extends along the length of the drum from a first end of the rib to a terminus of the rib proximate the entrance end of the drum. In addition, the drum includes a ring that extends between the terminus of the rib and the entrance end of the drum.

Claim (Index 4):
The spiral conveyor system of  claim 1 , wherein the rib has a first height at the terminus;\n wherein the first height is the maximum height of the rib along the length of the rib; and wherein at least a portion of the rib has a tapered height.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07273
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15854464', '14040980', '14386036', '12874652', '13231617']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7034702086682073
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5297709210704786
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6861002799084344
- Mean Citation Score: 221.721428
- Max Citation Score: 399.62424
- Similarity Product: 297.4216981387138

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

Dataset: test