PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["156", "200000"]

Abstract:
A forming device for gathering the width of a traveling web is disclosed. The forming device includes opposing arrays of flute-forming bars that can be interlaced to define therebetween a longitudinal flute-forming labyrinth effective to reduce the width of a web traveling therethrough by a preselected take-up ratio. The flute-forming bars are curved beginning at an entry end of the forming device such that they converge in a lateral direction as they proceed in the machine direction. In this manner, individual elements of the web traveling between the respective arrays in the machine direction follow contour lines along the curved bars or between adjacent ones of the curved bars so that no such element crosses any flute-forming bar in the cross-machine direction as the web travels and is fluted. A corrugating die for introducing a near-net shape to the intermediate-fluted web is also disclosed, as are a corrugating line incorporating these operations and methods for its operation.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of forming a longitudinally-corrugated web, comprising:\n a) adjusting a moisture content and/or temperature of a web of medium material having an initial width; b) feeding the web in a machine direction through a longitudinal fluting labyrinth defined between opposing sets of at least partially interlaced flute-forming bars, wherein pluralities of the flute-forming bars in each set are curved such that the bars in said respective pluralities converge in a cross-machine direction as a result of their curvature as they proceed toward an exit end; and c) reducing the width of said web to a substantially final width by forming longitudinal flutes of a first geometry in said web as it passes through said labyrinth.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8022
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15098591', '14271206', '14067783', '15475427', '14164454']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9385919150057532
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6101388032408446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9057466038292624
- Mean Citation Score: 509.224472
- Max Citation Score: 574.31177
- Similarity Product: 507.1736475153304

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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