PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "213000"]

Abstract:
A sheet stacker includes a sheet conveyor arrangement and a stacker platform. The sheets are fed in a sheet feeding direction on the stacker platform, to form stacks of sheets thereon. The stacker platform supports a stack conveyor configured and controlled to move in a conveyor direction to move the stack under formation such that sequentially piled up jobs are placed in an approximately centered position one with respect to the other according to the sheet feeding direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet stacker comprising:\n a sheet conveyor arrangement, configured for feeding a plurality of sheets in succession towards a sheet discharge end of said sheet conveyor arrangement; a stacker platform, whereon sheets delivered by the sheet conveyor arrangement are formed into stacks; wherein the sheet discharge end and the stacker platform are provided with a mutual approaching and distancing movement; a stack conveyor supported by the stacker platform, controlled to move according to a conveyor direction; wherein the conveyor direction is approximately parallel to a sheet feeding direction according to which sheets are fed onto the stacker platform; the stack conveyor is configured and controlled to move a partially formed stack in said conveyor direction, such that sequentially formed jobs of sheets are positioned one onto another such that a shorter one of said jobs is arranged in an intermediate position with respect to a longer one of said jobs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70833
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15274606', '15724880', '14083190', '14817665', '15354671']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7110056421193292
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5216816682139163
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6920732447287878
- Mean Citation Score: 244.172628
- Max Citation Score: 356.01193
- Similarity Product: 318.82126828185915

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

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