PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405892
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["065", "134400"]

Abstract:
Processes and systems for producing molten glass using submerged combustion melters, including densifying an initial composition comprising vitrifiable particulate solids and interstitial gas to form a densified composition comprising the solids by removing a portion of the interstitial gas from the composition. The initial composition is passed from an initial environment having a first pressure through a second environment having a second pressure higher than the first pressure to form a composition being densified. Any fugitive particulate solids escaping from the composition being densified are captured and recombined with the composition being densified to form the densified composition. The densified composition is fed into a feed inlet of a turbulent melting zone of a melter vessel and converted into turbulent molten material using at least one submerged combustion burner in the turbulent melting zone.

Claim (Index 28):
A submerged combustion melter system for melting a glass-forming material from a substantially solid form into a turbulent melt form, the submerged combustion melter system comprising:\n a melt chamber comprising a floor, a roof, and a least one wall, wherein the floor, the roof, and the at least one wall at least partially define an interior of the melt chamber, and wherein the interior of the melt chamber is configured to receive the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material, and contain the turbulent melt form of the glass-forming material, wherein the turbulent melt form of the glass-forming material has a turbulent melt surface, and wherein the floor defines a burner opening; at least one submerged combustion burner disposed in the burner opening; a feed system disposed proximate the at least one wall, wherein the feed system is configured to feed to the interior of the melt chamber the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material, and wherein the feed system comprises:\n a source chamber configured to receive the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; \n a first pressurizing zone for compressing the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material into a first compressed substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; \n a pressure shroud disposed proximate an outlet of the first pressurizing zone, wherein the pressure shroud at least partially defines a second pressurizing zone configured to receive the first compressed substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; and \n a release system disposed at an end of the pressure shroud, wherein the release system comprises an actuator for releasing, from the pressure shroud, the first compressed substantially solid form of the glass-forming material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01449
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13540704', '15358286', '13633979', '15272703', '14752556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7891674819026393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5978440902261125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7700351427349866
- Mean Citation Score: 360.519336
- Max Citation Score: 466.66006
- Similarity Product: 382.0953475080919

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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