PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893801
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["008", "156000"]

Abstract:
Repeatable and reliable chemical treatment for loose fibers is achieved by spraying or immersing loose fibers in a chemical treatment bath, and continuously moving the soaked fibers through a continuous centrifuge. The continuous centrifuge controls the wet pickup of the chemical formulation on the fibers and assures a substantially even chemical distribution on the centrifuged fibers. The centrifuged fibers may be dried to fix the chemicals in the chemical formulation to the fibers and/or to remove water from the chemical formulation. Recycling of the chemical formulation from the continuous centrifuge allows for the process to be performed more economically and in a more environmentally friendly fashion.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for continuous chemical treatment of loose fibers,\n comprising the steps of: applying a chemical formulation to loose fibers as the loose fibers continuously move through a chemical treatment bath, wherein said step of applying is performed by one or more of spraying the chemical formulation on the loose fibers and soaking the loose fibers with the chemical formulation; continuously conveying said fibers through said chemical treatment bath; and then centrifuging with a continuous centrifuge said loose fibers with applied chemical formulation received from the chemical treatment bath to produce centrifuged loose fibers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 8.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14082596', '15839956', '10022959', '14396496', '14466622']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7790877820602842
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5173854467223642
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7529175485264922
- Mean Citation Score: 213.297002
- Max Citation Score: 338.91788
- Similarity Product: 307.3847620023204

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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