PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["177", "052000"]

Abstract:
An automated hopper and belt conveyor apparatus that can be used to feed bulk material into a mixer in order to create a feed mixture for farm animals. The automated hopper and belt conveyor apparatus includes a support frame that supports a hopper and an inclined belt conveyor that operate under control of a controller to accurately feed a desired quantity (in weight) of a bulk material item from the hopper to the mixer by forward-direction operation of the inclined belt conveyor. Excess bulk material that has been loaded into the hopper (bulk material over the desired quantity in weight) is reclaimed by the controller controlling opening a rear gate of the hopper and reverse-direction operation of the inclined belt conveyor.

Claim (Index 10):
A method according to  claim 8 , wherein:\n the excess bulk material is reclaimed by opening the rear gate of the hopper and by the reverse-direction operation of the inclined belt conveyor after the desired quantity of the bulk material item is fed from the hopper to the mixer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06452
- Patent Class: 177.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14199080', '10399352', '15841441', '14752436', '15563673']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.616294707668439
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4918891648682818
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6038541533884233
- Mean Citation Score: 201.628308
- Max Citation Score: 204.75137
- Similarity Product: 134.36669529137492

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

Dataset: test