PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947952
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "792600"]

Abstract:
A case manipulator receives cases from an infeed conveyer and manipulates individual cases or groups of cases and transfers the manipulated cases to a row accumulator platform in a desired and pre-determined orientation and positioned on the accumulator platform to a desired and pre-determined location. The manipulation of individual cases, or groups of cases, is continued in a sequential operation until a complete row is formed on the accumulator platform according to a pre-determined build menu. The case manipulator includes a swing plate pivotal on a first axis and a paddle arm that is attached to the swing plate and pivotal on a second axis that is transverse to the first axis. The invention allows the palletizer to have the next case in a row transferred from the infeed conveyer to the row-build staging area while the case manipulator is operating on an already-delivered case.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of orienting items for building rows of items in a palletizer, comprising the steps of:\n a. delivering an item in a first orientation on an infeed conveyer; b. determining if the first orientation matches a first item predetermined orientation according to a row build menu; c. determining if the first item requires reorientation to match the first item predetermined orientation according to the row build menu; d. if the first item requires reorientation to match the first item predetermined orientation, causing the first item to be reoriented from the first orientation to a second orientation and delivering the first item to a row build conveyer; e. if the first item does not require reorientation, delivering the first item to the row build conveyer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22059
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15261751', '15609101', '15890485', '13924575', '13549872']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8525572099530069
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5808499717184004
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8253864861295462
- Mean Citation Score: 389.743178
- Max Citation Score: 588.2203
- Similarity Product: 385.3236878550052

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

Dataset: test