PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767534
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["366", "076100"]

Abstract:
A system and a method are provided for producing rubber mixtures. The system includes installations for performing a monopassage process and a multipassage process to produce a rubber mixture, and a transport system that transports the rubber mixture to one or more of the installations according to a selected recipe. The installations include a mixing and cooling installation that performs a mixing and cooling procedure in which the rubber mixture is formed into a sheet, the sheet is sprayed with water using at least one nozzle provided with water at a predetermined water flow rate and air at a predetermined air pressure, and evaporated water from the spraying of the sheet is evacuated at a predetermined air flow rate. The mixing and cooling procedure causes the rubber mixture of the sheet to reach target temperature and water-content values before a complementary mixing procedure is performed.

Claim (Index 18):
A system for producing rubber mixtures having expected properties, the system comprising:\n a plurality of rubber-mixture production installations, the production installations being arranged to perform monopassage rubber-mixture production processes and multipassage rubber-mixture production processes, each production installation being structured to execute at least one procedure of the rubber-mixture production processes; and a transport system that transports a mixture of rubber to one or more of the production installations sequentially according to a sequence of a rubber-mixture recipe selected for processing the mixture of rubber to have expected properties, wherein the production installations include a mixing and cooling installation that performs a mixing and cooling procedure, the mixing and cooling installation including:\n an external mixer including a pair of cylinders for forming the mixture of rubber into a sheet, \n a spray system including at least one spray rail positioned at each of an upper spray station and a lower spray station, each spray rail being in communication with a source for supplying water and air to one or more nozzles at a predetermined water flow rate and a predetermined air pressure, and \n an aspiration system including an aspiration hood positioned downstream of each spray rail, each aspiration hood being in communication with a source for evacuating air at a predetermined air flow rate, and \n wherein, during the mixing and cooling procedure, the mixing and cooling installation sprays the sheet with water and evacuates air containing evaporated water in order to cause the mixture of rubber of the sheet to reach a target temperature value and a target water-content value before a complementary mixing procedure is performed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14085
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15767531', '14236048', '12680453', '10051357', '13747461']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7554270653544426
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774828971002072
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7276326485290191
- Mean Citation Score: 138.2782312
- Max Citation Score: 223.03383
- Similarity Product: 167.1452921561247

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

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