PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874732
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["221", "001000"]

Abstract:
A pellet column is formed in a metering duct. The lowermost pellet is located in a connection point where an outlet duct is connected to the metering duct and leads transversely away therefrom. A first duct, which opens into the metering duct via a first duct mouth above the connection point, is impinged with negative pressure, wherein a pellet is suctioned onto the first duct mouth and is fixed thereto. This pellet acts as a block for the pellets thereabove. A second duct, which opens into the connection point via a second duct mouth, is impinged with positive pressure, wherein the pellet at the connection point is pneumatically ejected via the outlet duct and supplied to a container. After the ejection of the lowermost pellet, the negative pressure in the first duct is switched off such that the pellet held at the first duct mouth advances toward the connection point.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1  further comprising the step of monitoring a pressure in at least one of the first pressure differential duct and the second pressure differential duct.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43284
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12097885', '15770421', '14071676', '14032357', '15293927']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7173742045047683
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4891300217666164
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6945497862309531
- Mean Citation Score: 144.17389599999996
- Max Citation Score: 155.5399
- Similarity Product: 101.4916719345033

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

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