PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909033
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["414", "795200"]

Abstract:
An automatic egg tray stacking apparatus turns alternate egg trays through the operation of movable guides at the junction with a loading conveyor before conveying the egg trays toward a stacking mechanism that first stops the egg tray and then lowers the stack on top of the egg tray before re-elevating the partially formed stack to permit the entrance of a new egg tray into the stacking mechanism. Once the stack of egg trays is completed, the stack is allowed to move onto a stack conveyor and is moved forwardly for shipment. The stacking mechanism is operated by a single actuator having dual pneumatic cylinders that provide a three position operation of the lifting function with the stacking mechanism having lifter members engaging all four sides of the lowermost egg tray of the elevated stack. A control mechanism operates the apparatus with input from appropriately positioned sensors.

Claim (Index 2):
The egg tray stacking apparatus of  claim 1  wherein said egg tray orientation control mechanism comprises:\n a movable guide along said first conveyor to engage said egg tray moving along said first conveyor and affect turning of the egg tray, said movable guide being positionable in a first engagement position in which the guide engages the egg tray moving onto said first conveyor, and in a second non-engagement position in which the egg tray is permitted to move along said first conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80952
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12286700', '10143861', '11412051', '10919179', '13139915']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8458432361254181
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5138405402206275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8126429665349391
- Mean Citation Score: 250.904004
- Max Citation Score: 272.376
- Similarity Product: 166.26333271694182

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