PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934171
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["426", "087000"]

Abstract:
A tubular casing has a package design (la) printed on an original fabric film ( 1 ) with transparent no-print zones ( 2, 3 ) formed along left and right end edges ( 2 a,  3 a ). Best before date characters ( 4 ) are inkjet printed on the no-print zone ( 2 ). The fabric film ( 1 ) is bent to place the no-print zone ( 2 ) with printed characters on a lower side and form the fabric film ( 1 ) in a cylindrical shape. A heat seal portion (H) is formed including the date characters ( 4 ), in the no-print zone ( 2 ) located on the lower side. The heat seal portion (H) is formed up to the end edge ( 2 a ) of the no-print zone ( 2 ) and a no-heat seal portion (S) is formed on the end edge ( 3 a ) side of the no-print zone ( 3 ) located on an upper side to form a casing portion. Both ends of the casing portion are sealed.

Claim (Index 7):
A manufacturing method for forming a tubular casing container, the method comprising the steps of:\n printing a package design on an original fabric film and forming transparent no-print zones along both left and right end edges of the original fabric film; subsequent to the step of printing a package design, printing best before date characters on a surface of the no-print zone of the original fabric film with an inkjet method; subsequent to the step of printing best before date characters, circularly bending the original fabric film to place the no-print zone, on which the best before date characters are printed, on a lower side and the other no-print zone on an upper side to form a superimposed portion and to form a cylindrical casing portion; subsequent to the step of circularly bending the original fabric film, performing heat sealing of some of the superimposed portion to form a heat seal portion comprised of a portion with the best before date characters in the no-print zone located on the lower side, the heat seal portion extending up to an end edge of the no-print zone of the lower side and forming an upper side no-heat seal portion extending from the heat seal portion to an end edge side of the no-print zone located on the upper side; subsequent to the step of performing heat sealing, filling food in the cylindrical casing portion; subsequent to the step of filling food in the cylindrical casing portion, sealing both ends of the cylindrical casing portion with clips or by heat sealing to form sealed ends; and subsequent to the step of sealing both ends, cutting off outsides of the sealed ends.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95522
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12365066', '10920866', '10009205', '10962413', '12276405']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7110057480674339
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795454096717613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6878597142278666
- Mean Citation Score: 148.59519
- Max Citation Score: 157.23688
- Similarity Product: 107.52779782049178

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

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