PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116208
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["452", "037000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is provided for dividing up tubular cases which are filled with a pasty material such as sausage meat. The dividing apparatus includes two circulating transport elements arranged on mutually opposite sides of the case, and the transport elements respectively include one or more dividing elements and a plurality of guide parts, and at least one drive device for the transport elements. The dividing elements are so arranged at the transport elements and are so guided along the case that only one pair of dividing elements can be simultaneously brought into engagement with the case. The dividing apparatus can create various lengths of filled cases with minimal complexity.

Claim (Index 12):
The dividing apparatus of  claim 1 ,\n wherein the drive device for the transport elements is adapted to vary a speed of the transport elements with the dividing element when the dividing elements are out of engagement with the case or are brought into and/or out of engagement with the case, wherein the drive device for the transport elements is adapted to speed up or slow down the speed of the transport elements in relation to the conveyor speed of the tubular case, wherein the transport elements are respectively coupled to at least one drive roller for a respective transport element, wherein the transport elements are guided in respective direction-changing regions along a path of movement extending substantially parallel to the case, the dividing apparatus further comprising a control device which is connected in signal-conducting relationship to the drive device and which is adapted to actuate the drive device in dependence on a length of string portions to be produced at the case, wherein arranged at the transport elements are a plurality of guide parts in adjacent relationship between two dividing elements or in adjacent relationship beside the one dividing element at the transport element, wherein the transport element has a conveyor belt or a conveyor chain at which the dividing elements and/or guide parts are arranged at a mutual spacing, wherein the dividing elements and/or guide parts are reversibly coupled and secured to the transport elements, wherein the dividing elements of a pair of dividing elements have dividing portions which are arranged in mutually interlaced relationship, and the dividing apparatus further comprising at least one conveyor device having two conveyor elements that is disposed downstream of the transport elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74242
- Patent Class: 452.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14531321', '16116406', '11609955', '14053062', '11082255']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5696249586478067
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487778834802043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5614403462632304
- Mean Citation Score: 203.586328
- Max Citation Score: 210.18134
- Similarity Product: 132.77168593397855

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

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