PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "617000"]

Abstract:
The present application discloses vertical spiral conveyors for transporting loose material without the use of vibration or oscillation and methods of transporting materials without the use of vibration or oscillation. In certain embodiments, the vertical spiral conveyor comprises a vertical spiral fabrication having a spiral conveyor tray connected to a vertical member that is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation, a drive arm extending from the vertical spiral fabrication, and a drive system for rotating the vertical spiral fabrication about the axis of rotation. The drive system comprises a power source and a transmission coupled to the drive arm. The drive system generates alternating forward and backward strokes on the drive arm that rotate the vertical spiral fabrication clockwise and counterclockwise about the axis of rotation to cause loose material to be conveyed around the spiral conveyor tray.

Claim (Index 13):
The vertical spiral conveyor of  claim 17 , wherein the minimum rotation speed of the output shaft is between about 30 RPM and about 60 RPM and the maximum rotation speed of the output shaft is between about 80 RPM and about 145 RPM.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26154
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14373106', '12754687', '14780192', '12874652', '13240673']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6884530725135655
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6020482551477816
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6798125907769871
- Mean Citation Score: 247.583166
- Max Citation Score: 545.04724
- Similarity Product: 523.7156580288981

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

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