PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16210583
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["083", "409000"]

Abstract:
A food article slicing machine includes a food article loading apparatus with a lift tray assembly for moving food articles from a staging position to an elevated position at a beginning of a food article feed path, a food article feed apparatus disposed over the food article loading apparatus having an upper conveyor assembly with an independently driven endless conveyor belt used in cooperation with a food article gripper for moving the food articles along the food article feed path, a food article stop gate that forms part of the food article feed path and opens to drop food article end portions, and a slicing station at an end of the food article feed path with a knife for slicing the food articles.

Claim (Index 13):
A food article slicing machine, comprising:\n a slicing station comprising a knife blade and a knife blade drive driving the blade along a cutting path in a cutting plane; a food article loading apparatus including a lift tray assembly moveable between a staging position and an elevated position, the elevated position being a position where food articles disposed within the lift tray assembly are in a food article feed path; a food article feed apparatus disposed over said food article loading apparatus and having a conveyor assembly with independently driven endless conveyor belts, wherein each of the conveyor belts is used in cooperation with an independently driven and controlled food article gripper for moving a food article along the food article feed path, and wherein the conveyor assembly is an upper conveyor assembly; and a food article stop gate disposed upstream of the slicing station that forms a portion of the food article feed path, wherein the food articles are supported in position along the food article feed path by at least the food article stop gate when the lift tray assembly is moved in relation to its elevated position, and wherein the food article stop gate also serves as a door for the removal of food article end portions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26786
- Patent Class: 83.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16017346', '12255649', '12255634', '12255655', '12255643']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8370550203933224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6446639232998574
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8178159106839759
- Mean Citation Score: 527.678682
- Max Citation Score: 647.715
- Similarity Product: 596.0326644408702

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

Dataset: test