PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032836
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["209", "134000"]

Abstract:
A method for fractionating a milled grain product into coarse and fine fractions includes providing a sieving apparatus with a bottom chamber divided from a top chamber by a sieve, an inlet port in the top chamber, a top chamber cover defined by a plurality of openings, and a first exit port in the bottom chamber, and applying vacuum suction to the sieving apparatus. The vacuum suction is configured to draw grain particles through the inlet port into the top chamber, generate substantially horizontal airflow in the top chamber via the inlet port; and generate substantially vertical airflow in the top chamber via the plurality of openings, wherein the substantially horizontal airflow and the substantially vertical airflow combine to generate turbulence which fluidizes the grain particles in the upper chamber and prevents blockage of the sieve; and drawing fine grain particles through the sieve and out of the bottom chamber via the first exit port under the vacuum suction and collecting a fine grain particle fraction.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising a step of first opening a closed second valve in a second vacuum conduit connected to the second exit port effecting the collection of the coarse grain particles and then halting the collection of the fine grain particle fraction by closing a first open valve in a first vacuum conduit connected to the first exit port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51429
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15120450', '12302665', '13438926', '10945199', '11454758']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6631639434683807
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5528548269249373
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6521330318140364
- Mean Citation Score: 274.940222
- Max Citation Score: 445.1699
- Similarity Product: 333.4469342405319

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

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