PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["156", "200000"]

Abstract:
A forming device for gathering the width of a traveling web is disclosed. The forming device includes opposing arrays of flute-forming bars that can be interlaced to define therebetween a longitudinal flute-forming labyrinth effective to reduce the width of a web traveling therethrough by a preselected take-up ratio. The flute-forming bars are curved beginning at an entry end of the forming device such that they converge in a lateral direction as they proceed in the machine direction. In this manner, individual elements of the web traveling between the respective arrays in the machine direction follow contour lines along the curved bars or between adjacent ones of the curved bars so that no such element crosses any flute-forming bar in the cross-machine direction as the web travels and is fluted. A corrugating die for introducing a near-net shape to the intermediate-fluted web is also disclosed, as are a corrugating line incorporating these operations and methods for its operation.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of forming a longitudinally-corrugated web, comprising: uniformly introducing into a web of medium material first longitudinal corrugations of a first geometry as the web travels along a web-travel pathway in a machine direction, thereby reducing the width of the web to substantially a final width that corresponds to a take-up ratio for preselected final longitudinal corrugations or other final three-dimensional structure to be formed in the web, then introducing into the web second longitudinal corrugations having a lower amplitude and higher frequency than the first longitudinal corrugations, then relaxing the web to maintain the final longitudinal corrugations therein when external forces have been removed therefrom.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8022
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15098591', '14271206', '14067783', '15475427', '14164454']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.940543419302534
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5888199478406595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9053710721563466
- Mean Citation Score: 509.224472
- Max Citation Score: 574.31177
- Similarity Product: 426.0855461083478

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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