PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405844
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["065", "380000"]

Abstract:
Processes and systems for producing glass fibers having regions devoid of glass using submerged combustion melters, including feeding a vitrifiable feed material into a feed inlet of a melting zone of a melter vessel, and heating the vitrifiable material with at least one burner directing combustion products of an oxidant and a first fuel into the melting zone under a level of the molten material in the zone. One or more of the burners is configured to impart heat and turbulence to the molten material, producing a turbulent molten material comprising a plurality of bubbles suspended in the molten material, the bubbles comprising at least some of the combustion products, and optionally other gas species introduced by the burners. The molten material and bubbles are drawn through a bushing fluidly connected to a forehearth to produce a glass fiber comprising a plurality of interior regions substantially devoid of glass.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operating a submerged combustion melter for melting a glass-forming material, the method comprising:\n providing the submerged combustion melter comprising a melt chamber having an interior at least partially defined by a melt chamber floor, at least one melt chamber sidewall, and a melt chamber roof; disposing, in the interior of the melt chamber, the glass-forming material; disposing, in the melt chamber floor, a submerged combustion burner; introducing, to the submerged combustion burner, a first fluid via a first conduit disposed in the submerged combustion burner and a second fluid via at least one second conduit disposed in the submerged combustion burner, wherein the first conduit defines a longitudinal axis of the submerged combustion burner; introducing, to a body secured to an end of the burner opposite a base of the burner, the first fluid from the first conduit; introducing, to the body secured to the end of the burner, the second fluid from the at least one second conduit, wherein the body defines a first passage for receiving a first one of the introduced first fluid and the introduced second fluid, and wherein the body defines a plurality of second passages for receiving a second one of the introduced first fluid and the introduced second fluid, wherein at least two of the plurality of second passages are disposed at angles to the longitudinal axis; mixing the first fluid with the second fluid in a mixing region to form a mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid; introducing, to a melt region of the submerged combustion melter, a mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid; and substantially simultaneously with introducing the mixture, circulating around the first conduit and the second conduit, a cooling fluid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9625
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15272703', '13540771', '14686102', '16405770', '14785325']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7999236410062095
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5755609974228287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7774873766478714
- Mean Citation Score: 408.6891240000001
- Max Citation Score: 444.4043
- Similarity Product: 427.82683177818654

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