PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16142281
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["198", "301000"]

Abstract:
A hydraulic actuator is provided within a belt-type agricultural conveyor for controlling the position of the tension roller of the conveyor belt, together with a hydraulic controller which supplies a controlled pressure of hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator. In this manner, a consistent tension can be applied to the endless conveyor belt in an automated manner through a large range of movement so that the maintenance step of periodically removing a section of the belt as the belt stretches can be minimized in frequency. Furthermore, the endless belt is always operated at an optimum tension for extending the life of the belt. The hydraulic actuator also enables the tension to be removed from the belt in a simple manner by displacing a switch to remove tension from the belt whenever the conveyor is not in use for yet further extending the life of the conveyor belt.

Claim (Index 11):
The conveyor according to  claim 10  wherein the hydraulic controller includes a pressure reducing valve and wherein both the hydraulic linear actuator and the hydraulic tension actuator are connected downstream of said pressure reducing valve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12246015', '14390175', '14527991', '15488756', '14422090']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7634388444606954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4837221686378564
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7354671768784116
- Mean Citation Score: 249.921154
- Max Citation Score: 254.17522
- Similarity Product: 171.8049199001801

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