PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116208
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["452", "037000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is provided for dividing up tubular cases which are filled with a pasty material such as sausage meat. The dividing apparatus includes two circulating transport elements arranged on mutually opposite sides of the case, and the transport elements respectively include one or more dividing elements and a plurality of guide parts, and at least one drive device for the transport elements. The dividing elements are so arranged at the transport elements and are so guided along the case that only one pair of dividing elements can be simultaneously brought into engagement with the case. The dividing apparatus can create various lengths of filled cases with minimal complexity.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for dividing up tubular cases which are filled with a pasty material, comprising:\n two circulating transport elements arranged on mutually opposite sides of the case, wherein the transport elements respectively include one or more dividing elements, and at least one drive device for the transport elements, wherein the dividing elements are so arranged at the transport elements and the transport elements are so guided along the case that only one pair of dividing elements can be simultaneously brought into engagement with the case, wherein the transport elements are respectively associated with one of their direction-changing regions with the case to be transported, wherein the transport elements have two direction-changing elements, and wherein axes of rotation of the two direction-changing elements for the respective transport element extend in a common plane, wherein the plane is oriented inclinedly at an angle relative to a conveyor direction of the tubular cases.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74242
- Patent Class: 452.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14531321', '16116406', '11609955', '14053062', '11082255']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5704705223855214
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4842805357192865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.561851523718898
- Mean Citation Score: 203.586328
- Max Citation Score: 210.18134
- Similarity Product: 138.6281493937397

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

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