PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975002
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["209", "139100"]

Abstract:
A half round dedusting apparatus for removes dust and debris from particulate material passing through the dedusting apparatus. The configuration of the dedusting apparatus includes a half round cylindrical housing in which is mounted a partial cone wash deck having a reverse partial cone deflector that is vertically moveable to vary the flow rate of particulate material passing over the wash deck. The product inlet port is preferably circular and directs contaminant-laden particulate material inside the deflector to pass over the surface of the wash deck. The housing has a greater diameter than the maximum diameter of the wash deck to establish a Venturi zone around the circumference of the wash deck. The wash deck and deflector are detachably mounted within the housing to allow removal thereof for ease of cleaning the wash deck and also the interior of the housing.

Claim (Index 9):
A dedusting apparatus for cleaning contaminants from contaminate-laden particulate material, comprising:\n a housing including a semi-cylindrical front housing and a planar back wall; a product inlet port having a product inlet tube through which said contaminate-laden particulate material is introduced into said housing and a product discharge port through which particulate material is discharged from the housing; a partial-conical wash deck terminating in a tip located at a center of curvature of said product inlet tube against said back wall to direct the flow of said contaminant-laden particulate material uniformly over the partial-conical wash deck, the wash deck having an outer peripheral bottom edge that is spaced internally from said front housing to define a Venturi zone for the passage of air between said wash deck and said front housing; said wash deck being formed with a plurality of apertures for the passage of air through the wash deck to clean contaminants from said contaminant-laden particulate material passing from said product inlet tube over said wash deck.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13681396', '12126876', '13676029', '12718494', '11454437']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7399668840098812
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5601770058390961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7219878961928028
- Mean Citation Score: 442.32334
- Max Citation Score: 453.43085
- Similarity Product: 391.0496005815983

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