PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15779460
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "094000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a device ( 1 ) and method for aligning blanks ( 2 ) in a magazine ( 3 ) holding a number of blanks ( 2 ), each blank ( 2 ) being a sleeve shaped piece of packaging material folded planar. The device ( 1 ) comprises a plate element ( 4 ), and a vibrating means ( 5 ) connected to said plate element ( 4 ) to vibrate said plate element ( 4 ) in relation to said magazine ( 3 ), such that said plate element ( 4 ) comes into contact with an edge of any unaligned blanks in said magazine in order to align said unaligned blanks. The invention also relates to an apparatus ( 100 ) and method for fetching a blank ( 2 ) from a magazine ( 3 ) holding a number of blanks ( 2 ).

Claim (Index 15):
A device for aligning blanks held in a magazine, each blank being a folded piece of packaging material, the device comprising:\n a plate element configured to contact a respective edge of an unaligned blank; and a vibrating element connected to the plate element to vibrate the plate element in relation to the magazine, such that, when the plate vibrates, the plate element contacts the edge of the unaligned blank in the magazine to thereby align the unaligned blank in the magazine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55738
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15106625', '15024760', '12238970', '11676533', '11362480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.732503234562282
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5154439554222616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7107973066482799
- Mean Citation Score: 207.015578
- Max Citation Score: 333.5151
- Similarity Product: 190.136186375928

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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