PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16385458
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "291000"]

Abstract:
Granular material flows out through the discharge opening of a silo and through a sealed housing to a target location. A vent opening in a top portion of the silo has a vent cover operative to selectively open and close the vent opening. When the vent cover is closed, air movement into an upper portion of the silo is prevented. A gate is operative to control a flow of granular material through the discharge opening. A vacuum conduit has a lower input end thereof connected to an interior of the housing, and an upper output end thereof located in an upper portion of an interior of the silo. Material flowing out of the silo creates a vacuum drawing dust from the housing up the vacuum conduit into the silo.

Claim (Index 8):
The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the housing has a floor sloped such that the granular material flows along the sloped floor, and wherein the lower input end of the vacuum conduit is connected to the interior of the housing at a location above granular material flowing along the sloped floor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28333
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15034697', '15026729', '14836934', '15749882', '10864795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8568241168241022
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5437520480873774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8255169099504297
- Mean Citation Score: 255.565708
- Max Citation Score: 404.44818
- Similarity Product: 402.5785382758855

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