PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "459300"]

Abstract:
A spacing drum comprising: a segment receiving drum section capable of receiving a predetermined number of segments per revolution of the drum from a procession of segments approaching the segment receiving drum section at a segment-feed spacing and a segment-feed speed; a segment releasing drum section capable of releasing the predetermined number of segments at a segment-release spacing and a segment-release speed; and a radial profile flight comprising a continuous arc segment extending across at least portions of the segment receiving drum section and the segment releasing drum section. Associated methods are also provided, including method of changing pitch along a spacing drum progressively with a radial profile flight.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of changing pitch along a spacing drum progressively, the method comprising:\n representing a peripheral surface of a spacing drum with a planar drum view, the spacing drum and the planar drum view having an entrance edge at which a procession of segments enter the spacing drum at a segment-feed speed and a segment-feed spacing and an exit edge at which the procession of segments leave the spacing drum at a segment-release speed and with a segment-release spacing; defining, adjacent the entrance edge, a first straight line corresponding to a first hypothetical flight, the first hypothetical flight defining a first pitch; defining, adjacent the exit edge, a second straight line corresponding to a second hypothetical flight, the second hypothetical flight defining a second pitch; resolving an arc center by:\n resolving an angle of intersection between the first straight line and the second straight line; \n bisecting the resolved angle of intersection to project a first centering line; and \n projecting a second centering line perpendicular to the second straight line from a location where the second straight line intersects the exit edge of the spacing drum; \n whereby the arc center is resolved by an intersection of the first and second centering lines; \n projecting an arc across the planar drum view from the resolved arc center while using as a radius a distance between the resolved arc center and the location where the second straight line intersects the exit edge of the spacing drum; and forming a first radial profile flight upon the spacing drum peripheral surface corresponding to the arc projected across the planar drum view.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15502461', '10698075', '10567194', '11141701', '12158634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7072243589214027
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4601272441007681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6825146474393393
- Mean Citation Score: 151.02112199999996
- Max Citation Score: 156.91653
- Similarity Product: 104.24052454965948

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