PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955405
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["414", "798900"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for handling stacks of articles, such as cups or containers, includes a selectively extensible conveyor which can be indexed for moving the stacks of articles, and which can moved from an extended position to a retracted position. By movement from the extended position, the conveyor is moved from beneath one or more of the stacks for discharging stacks from the apparatus. The apparatus includes one or more movable stack gates for controlling, guiding, and stabilizing movement and discharge of the stacks, to thereby avoid problems associated with the instability of the stacked articles.

Claim (Index 3):
An apparatus for loading stacks of articles in accordance with  claim 2 , wherein said movable stack gate has a generally semi-cylindrical configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13892544', '13400953', '12384978', '10259161', '10863523']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8754670477799248
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948250888130661
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.837402851883239
- Mean Citation Score: 224.25998600000003
- Max Citation Score: 253.7255
- Similarity Product: 175.43087482458355

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