PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16385458
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "291000"]

Abstract:
Granular material flows out through the discharge opening of a silo and through a sealed housing to a target location. A vent opening in a top portion of the silo has a vent cover operative to selectively open and close the vent opening. When the vent cover is closed, air movement into an upper portion of the silo is prevented. A gate is operative to control a flow of granular material through the discharge opening. A vacuum conduit has a lower input end thereof connected to an interior of the housing, and an upper output end thereof located in an upper portion of an interior of the silo. Material flowing out of the silo creates a vacuum drawing dust from the housing up the vacuum conduit into the silo.

Claim (Index 9):
A kit for collecting dust when removing granular material from a silo with a discharge opening at a bottom portion thereof configured such that granular material flows out through the discharge opening to a target location, and with a loading conduit mounted to the silo with a lower input end located at a lower location on an exterior of the silo and an upper output end located in an upper portion of an interior of the silo; the kit comprising:\n a sealed housing enclosing a flow path between the discharge opening and the target location; a dust conduit connected at an input end thereof to an interior of the housing, and connectable at an output end thereof to the lower input end of the loading conduit; and vent covers operative to close vent openings in an upper portion of the silo and prevent air movement into the upper portion of the silo.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28333
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15034697', '15026729', '14836934', '15749882', '10864795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8438156876012837
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5356798223735992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8130021010785152
- Mean Citation Score: 255.565708
- Max Citation Score: 404.44818
- Similarity Product: 309.36447358608484

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test