PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939770
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["241", "030000"]

Abstract:
A process for separating carpet fibers from carpet backing uses a grinder of the type having a rotor with a plurality of vertically spaced cutter discs and a fan disc below the cutter discs. Sections of carpet are fed into the grinder which grinds the carpet, separating the fibers from the backing and breaking the backing into relatively small particles. The grinder is connected with a series of ginning equipment for removing the ground backing from the fibers.

Claim (Index 13):
A grinder for separating rigid components from non-rigid components in a composite material and reducing the size of the rigid and non-rigid components, said grinder comprising:\n a housing having a plurality of sidewall sections, a top wall, and a bottom wall; a shaft rotatably mounted in the housing between the sidewall sections; a cylinder encasing at least a portion of the shaft; a first cutter disc mounted on the shaft and having an outer edge; at least one hammer mounted on the first cutter disc and extending radially outwardly past the outer edge of the first cutter disc; angle deflectors mounted on respective sidewall sections, wherein the position of each angle deflector can be fine-tuned for alignment with the first cutter disc, each angle deflector comprising a horizontal flange extending inwardly from a respective sidewall section and presenting an inner edge, wherein a gap is defined between the inner edge of the horizontal flange and the outer edge of the first cutter disc, the at least one hammer rotating in closely spaced relation to an upper surface of the horizontal flange; and a fan assembly mounted inside the housing below the first cutter disc, said fan assembly comprising a fan disc having a direction of rotation and one or more fan blades connected to the fan disc.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78261
- Patent Class: 241.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13279621', '14098113', '13111353', '13657963', '12493470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7961551164590958
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5098845908344978
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.767528063896636
- Mean Citation Score: 269.033478
- Max Citation Score: 340.71234
- Similarity Product: 311.2722240936112

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

Dataset: test