PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038951
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["422", "026000"]

Abstract:
A sterilizing apparatus, in particular for sterilizing post-consumer absorbent sanitary products, comprising: a container rotatable about a horizontal axis and having a hollow wall including an inner wall, an outer wall, and a gap defined between the inner wall and the outer wall, a rotary joint coaxial to said horizontal axis and having a steam inlet chamber and a condensate discharge chamber, wherein the steam inlet chamber and the condensate discharge chamber of said rotary joint are in communication with respective zones of said gap via a steam supply tube and a condensate collection tube.

Claim (Index 3):
An apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein said lip of the condensate collection container is located at a distance from the outer wall comprised between 5 and 15 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9434
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14414634', '12075042', '10051901', '09609881', '11908884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.784224581405035
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4677818485885862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7525803081233902
- Mean Citation Score: 118.41592
- Max Citation Score: 120.64713
- Similarity Product: 80.62104528626203

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