PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038017
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["053", "374400"]

Abstract:
A film fin sealing device is disclosed herein which may have a groove defining a base. The base of the groove of the fin sealing device may be oriented at a skewed angle with respect to a longitudinal direction of the conveyor of a heat sealing machine. Edges of a thermoplastic sheet or two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets are introduced into the groove of the film fin sealing device and placed in contact therewith to both heat and fuse the distal edge portions of the thermoplastic sheet(s) to join the edge portions thereof to form a fin seal.

Claim (Index 1):
A heat sealing machine for forming a fin seal on a folded thermoplastic sheet or two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets when wrapping a product, the heat sealing machine comprising:\n a stand for holding a roll of folded thermoplastic sheet or the two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets; a heater mechanism; a fin seal heater block attached to the heater mechanism for heating the fin seal heater block, the fin seal heater block disposed adjacent to edges of the thermoplastic sheet(s), the fin seal heater block having a groove along a length of the fin seal heater block, a base of the groove oriented at a skew angle with respect to the edges of first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) so that the edges of the first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) approaches the base of the groove and contacts the base to seal distal edge portion of the first and second layers together to form the fin seal as the thermoplastic sheet(s) is fed through the heat sealing machine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15294450', '14827145', '11951601', '11581219', '10994691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7670026308641211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5358646273993364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438888305176427
- Mean Citation Score: 266.06886000000003
- Max Citation Score: 391.42737
- Similarity Product: 371.2364917290651

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

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