PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "617000"]

Abstract:
The present application discloses vertical spiral conveyors for transporting loose material without the use of vibration or oscillation and methods of transporting materials without the use of vibration or oscillation. In certain embodiments, the vertical spiral conveyor comprises a vertical spiral fabrication having a spiral conveyor tray connected to a vertical member that is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation, a drive arm extending from the vertical spiral fabrication, and a drive system for rotating the vertical spiral fabrication about the axis of rotation. The drive system comprises a power source and a transmission coupled to the drive arm. The drive system generates alternating forward and backward strokes on the drive arm that rotate the vertical spiral fabrication clockwise and counterclockwise about the axis of rotation to cause loose material to be conveyed around the spiral conveyor tray.

Claim (Index 12):
The vertical spiral conveyor of  claim 1 , wherein:\n an output shaft of the transmission rotates from about 0 degrees to about 180 degrees during each forward stroke and from about 180 degrees to about 360 degrees during each backward stroke; and wherein the output shaft accelerates from a minimum rotation speed to a maximum rotation speed between about 0 degrees and about 120 degrees, decelerates from the maximum rotation speed to the minimum rotation speed between about 120 degrees and about 180 degrees, accelerates from the minimum rotation speed to the maximum rotation speed between about 180 degrees and about 240 degrees, and decelerates from the maximum rotation speed to the minimum rotation speed between about 240 degrees and about 360 degrees.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26154
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14373106', '12754687', '14780192', '12874652', '13240673']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6871185757165108
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6057871789898107
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6789854360438408
- Mean Citation Score: 247.583166
- Max Citation Score: 545.04724
- Similarity Product: 539.5502509168911

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