PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16123054
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["083", "707000"]

Abstract:
A product slicer incorporating an automatic slicer engagement mechanism attached to a carriage assembly for quick, safe, reliable, and releasable engagement with a belt to provide powered automated slicing, and disengagement to allow manual slicing.

Claim (Index 14):
A product slicer ( 1100 ), comprising;\n a housing ( 1200 ); a knife ( 1300 ) mounted to the housing ( 1200 ) and rotatable about a central knife axis, the knife ( 1300 ) having a knife cutting edge ( 1320 ) defining a knife cutting plane; a carriage assembly ( 900 ) mounted to the housing ( 1200 ), the carriage assembly ( 900 ) including a carriage table ( 930 ) configured for reciprocating motion past the knife cutting edge ( 1320 ); a drive system ( 1000 ) mounted to the housing ( 1200 ) and including at least one motor ( 1010 ) to drive a belt ( 1020 ); an automatic slicer engagement mechanism ( 100 ) attached to the carriage assembly ( 900 ) and configured for releasable engagement with the belt ( 1020 ), wherein the automatic slicer engagement mechanism ( 100 ) includes:\n (a) a base ( 200 ); \n (b) a fix jaw ( 240 ) connected to the base ( 200 ) and having a belt engagement surface ( 241 ); \n (c) a moving jaw ( 400 ) pivotably connected to the base ( 200 ) about a pivot axis, wherein the moving jaw ( 400 ) has at least one moving jaw ( 410 ) and at least one arm ( 430 ) located on opposite sides of the pivot axis, and wherein the moving jaw ( 400 ) is biased toward the disengaged state; and \n (d) a slide ( 300 ) slidably attached to the base ( 200 ) and in contact with the at least one arm ( 430 ), wherein the slide ( 300 ) is configured to move from a first position to a second position thereby displacing the at least one arm ( 430 ) and pivoting the moving jaw ( 400 ) from a disengaged state to an engaged state, wherein in the disengaged state the fixed jaw ( 240 ) and the moving jaw ( 400 ) do not engage the belt ( 1020 ) and the carriage assembly is manually movable, and in the engaged state the at least one moving jaw tooth ( 410 ) has rotated to be substantially parallel with the belt engagement surface ( 241 ) and the belt ( 1020 ) is securely engaged between the fixed jaw ( 240 ) and the moving jaw ( 400 ) so that powered movement of the belt ( 1020 ) produces powered movement of the carriage assembly ( 900 ); and \n an actuator ( 700 ) that controls the position of the slide ( 300 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.33333
- Patent Class: 83.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15265105', '15187851', '12281482', '10014926', '12323580']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7291846451170312
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5668538462622702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.712951565231555
- Mean Citation Score: 205.855662
- Max Citation Score: 444.18948
- Similarity Product: 439.9740630543852

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