PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941635
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["198", "837000"]

Abstract:
A transfer conveyor for food process lines is equipped with hardware to enable pivoting in place and other hardware to enable and reversible expansion and contraction of the transfer conveyor, or at least the upper, food-product carrying run of the endless conveyor belt therefor.

Claim (Index 2):
The transfer conveyor of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the at least one transfer conveyor comprises a base carriage and a turret pivotally mounted to the base carriage; said turret being mounted with course-changing hardware for supporting and tensioning the endless conveyor belt, said course-changing hardware including spaced nose rollers between which is defined the upper, food-product carrying run; said at least one transfer conveyor further comprises two pair of movable brackets, one pair of movable brackets for supporting one nose roller and the other pair of movable brackets for support the other nose roller; said movable brackets having extension and retraction strokes that correspondingly give the upper, food-product carrying run expanded and contracted states; said at least one transfer conveyor being scaled and configured such said at least one transfer conveyor can pivot in place between the at least one food process line machine and the at least one other food process line machine without moving either.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34286
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14460852', '15376897', '14625999', '12255659', '12255637']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7286919218732447
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4653078664611269
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7023535163320329
- Mean Citation Score: 141.42961599999995
- Max Citation Score: 146.51045
- Similarity Product: 92.78307786478696

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

Dataset: test