PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16181340
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["585", "241000"]

Abstract:
A method for causing used tires to recycle themselves involves chopping used tires to create a feedstock, placing the feedstock within a recycling vessel able to withstand heat and pressure, introducing a caustic agent which will isolate and neutralize or precipitate hazardous substances such as carcinogens and heavy metals, introducing a non-aliphatic hydrocarbon supercritical reactant, raising the interior of the recycling vessel to a desired temperature and pressure to cause the supercritical reactant to enter a supercritical state and effuse into the feedstock where it chemically reacts with the used tire feedstock to release hydrocarbons and other materials from the used tire feedstock, and precipitously dropping pressure within the recycling vessel so that the supercritical reactant exits the used tire feedstock so quickly that it mechanically breaks the used tire feedstock material part. Temperature within the recycling vessel can be increased by inductively heating the used tire feedstock. Hydrocarbon vapors and liquids which exit the used tire feedstock can be used to fuel a generator which provides electricity to heating by electrical induction. The hydrocarbon vapors and liquids can also be combusted to heat the recycling vessel or to preheat and dewater the used tire feedstock. Other than heavy metal contaminants and carcinogens, the used tire material can be re-used in new products.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for causing used tires to recycle themselves comprising the following steps:\n i) introduce used tire feedstock which includes steel belt material to the interior of a non-conductive tire recycling vessel, ii) introduce an unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon supercritical reactant and a caustic agent to the interior of said recycling vessel, power an induction coil surrounding said recycling vessel with alternating current in the range of 100 to 400 kHz to induce current flow in said steel belt material which in turns heats said used tire feedstock to the point where pyrolysis occurs, said heating of said steel belt material occurring by means of eddy currents and hysteresis, iii) maintain temperature and pressure within said recycling vessel at a level that keeps said supercritical reactant in its supercritical state, iv) cause said supercritical reactant to effuse into said used tire feedstock, v) cause said supercritical reactant to break chemical bonds in said used tire feedstock, vi) recover useful products from said recycling vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09346
- Patent Class: 585.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14126854', '12304254', '10666976', '14412662', '14542412']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6286104682848381
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4852921385214344
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6142786353084978
- Mean Citation Score: 166.92367000000004
- Max Citation Score: 176.2022
- Similarity Product: 128.7250092633009

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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