PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751649
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["198", "347100"]

Abstract:
A buffering device comprises a frame and a conveyor belt, a supply station, a discharge station, a first reversing member reverses the conveying direction of the conveyor belt, and a return guide includes a second reversing member. The buffering device is configured such that the conveyor belt moves from the supply station via the first reversing member to the discharge station, after which the conveyor belt is guided back to the supply station via the return guide. A portion of the conveyor belt n forms a buffer section of which the length varies. The remaining portion of the conveyor belt forms a compensation section for compensating a change of length of the buffer section during simultaneous displacement of the first and second reversing members with respect to the frame. The first reversing member includes a buffer carriage for radially guiding the conveyor belt, which guide is fixed to the carriage.

Claim (Index 3):
The buffering device according to  claim 2 , wherein the buffer carriage and the compensation carriage form a common carriage which is displaceable in the transport plane and wherein the buffering device is configured such that under operating conditions downstream of the buffer section the conveyor belts are guided via a portion of the return guide to the rear end of one of the support tracks and follow this support track, and follow the other support track via the guides of the second reversing member in opposite direction to the rear end there, after which the conveyor belts are again guided back to the front end of the support track upstream of the buffer section via a different portion of the return guide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63934
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15256088', '14749216', '11075123', '10469903', '13203553']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7254033544180875
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4939710058089704
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7022601195571758
- Mean Citation Score: 248.922508
- Max Citation Score: 283.71365
- Similarity Product: 209.92387074235376

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

Dataset: test