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 10):
A method of collecting dust when removing granular material from a silo with a vent opening in an upper portion of the silo and a discharge opening at a bottom portion of the silo configured such that granular material in the silo flows out through the discharge opening to a target location, the method comprising:\n enclosing a flow path between the discharge opening and the target location with a sealed housing; connecting a vacuum conduit at an input end thereof to an interior of the housing, and locating an upper output end of the vacuum conduit in an upper portion of an interior of the silo; closing the vent opening to prevent air movement into the upper portion of the silo above the granular material in the silo; operating a gate to release a flow of granular material through the discharge opening such that granular material flowing out the discharge opening creates a vacuum in the upper portion of the silo above the granular material therein and draws air and dust from the housing into the vacuum conduit and through the vacuum conduit 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): 0.8422873909819797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5397053150203287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8120291833858146
- Mean Citation Score: 255.565708
- Max Citation Score: 404.44818
- Similarity Product: 374.1422220390416

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

Dataset: test