PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16376340
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "767000"]

Abstract:
A system for recovery of animal byproducts and providing water reuse from an animal processing plant waste stream. In one embodiment of the invention there is an equalization tank forming part of an animal processing plant that is mechanically filtered to recover animal byproducts from a water mixture in the equalization tank. In another aspect of the invention there is a skimmer tank that contains a skimmer mixture with water and animal byproducts. The system mechanically separates the animal byproducts from the skimmer mixture in a manner that is suitable for human consumption. The system also allows the separated water to be reused in the animal processing plant.

Claim (Index 10):
A system for recovery of animal byproducts from an animal processing plant waste stream comprising:\n an equalization tank forming part of the animal processing plant and being connected to one or more water mixture sources, the equalization tank having a first section, a second section and a separation wall separating the first section and second section; an inlet of the equalization tank for inputting a water mixture containing particles of animal byproduct, supplied to the first portion of the equalization tank, wherein as the level of the water mixture reaches the top of the separation wall a portion of the water mixture will flow over the top of the separation wall and flow into the second section of the equalization tank; a moving autoweir located in the second section of the equalization tank and capable of moving vertically within the second section so that a body portion of the moving autoweir stays about at a surface level of the water mixture within the second section in order to collect and remove a portion of the water mixture and particles of animal byproduct that are less dense than water which are more concentrated at the surface level of the water mixture within the second section; one or more inlet doors formed in the body of the moving autoweir each of the one or more inlet doors will open when positioned at or above the surface level of the water mixture within the second section and will close when positioned below the surface level of the water mixture within the second section; a suction outlet connected to the body of the moving autoweir for removing the water mixture that enters the body of the moving autoweir through the one or more inlet doors; a vertical separation tank having an inlet connected to and receiving the water mixture from the suction outlet; one or more aeration inlets connected to the separation tank at locations beneath the surface of the mixture contained within the separation tank, wherein the one or more aeration inlets apply a steady stream of air bubbles to the water mixture in order to promote the separation of particles of animal byproduct that are less dense than water, by promoting the particles of animal byproduct that are less dense than water to float to the surface of the water mixture contained within the vertical separation tank thereby creating a surface layer of concentrated animal byproduct mixture with water; a scraper having one or more blades located above the surface of the water mixture within the separation tank, where in the one or more blades move parallel to the surface of the water mixture in order to push the concentrated animal byproduct mixture with water to a sludge chute; and a holding tank for receiving the concentrated animal byproduct mixture with water from the sludge chute.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13208
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10464116', '13160459', '10762017', '13750989', '12762561']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7779866050519485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488186417331918
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7490065862799455
- Mean Citation Score: 200.539388
- Max Citation Score: 233.28867
- Similarity Product: 177.7018280409229

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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