PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947952
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "792600"]

Abstract:
A case manipulator receives cases from an infeed conveyer and manipulates individual cases or groups of cases and transfers the manipulated cases to a row accumulator platform in a desired and pre-determined orientation and positioned on the accumulator platform to a desired and pre-determined location. The manipulation of individual cases, or groups of cases, is continued in a sequential operation until a complete row is formed on the accumulator platform according to a pre-determined build menu. The case manipulator includes a swing plate pivotal on a first axis and a paddle arm that is attached to the swing plate and pivotal on a second axis that is transverse to the first axis. The invention allows the palletizer to have the next case in a row transferred from the infeed conveyer to the row-build staging area while the case manipulator is operating on an already-delivered case.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of orienting items in rows in a palletizer, comprising the steps of:\n a. delivering at least a first item to a stop position on an infeed conveyer; b. confirming a first orientation of the first item in the stop position; c. determining if the first item requires reorientation from the first orientation to a second orientation; d. if the first item requires reorientation, causing the first item to be reoriented from the first orientation to the second orientation and delivering the reoriented first item from the infeed conveyer to a row build conveyer; e. if the first item does not require reorientation, delivering the first item from the infeed conveyer to the row build conveyer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22059
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15261751', '15609101', '15890485', '13924575', '13549872']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8502157764761171
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.592564941257972
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8244506929543027
- Mean Citation Score: 389.743178
- Max Citation Score: 588.2203
- Similarity Product: 427.6028844097912

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

Dataset: test