PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752605
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "790700"]

Abstract:
When sheet products  1  are discharged, the sheet products are collided against shutter bars  5  so as to fall and stack on a feed conveyor  4 . Then, each of protrusion bodies  7  and  8  are lowered by a first drive  9  so as to nip the sheet products between the protrusion bodies and the feed conveyor. Then, coming products are successively discharged and stacked on the protrusion bodies. And then, a second drive  12  is operated in conjunction with the feed conveyor so as to feed the sheet products nipped between the protrusion bodies and the feed conveyor  4 . The shutter bars  5  are elevated and lowered by a third drive for adjusting the height position thereof.

Claim (Index 5):
An apparatus for stacking and feeding sheet products discharged successively, the apparatus comprising:\n a carriage spaced from a discharge position of the sheet products in a feed direction of the sheet products; a feed conveyor extended in the feed direction of the sheet products; a plurality of shutter bars disposed above the feed conveyor and between the discharge position and the carriage, the shutter bars being extended vertically and spaced from each other in the lateral direction in such a manner that the sheet products collide against the shutter bars to fall onto the conveyor after being discharged successively, for stacking the sheet products on the conveyor; a plurality of protrusion bodies supported on the carriage and spaced from each other in a lateral direction in such a manner that each of the protrusion bodies passes between each of the shutter bars and protrudes toward the discharge position of the sheet products, the protrusion bodies being disposed and stood by above the sheet products when the sheet products are fed and stacked; a first drive mounted on the carriage, the first drive being configured to lower the protrusion bodies in such a manner that the sheet products are nipped between the protrusion bodies and the feed conveyor after the sheet products are stacked, coming sheet products being then discharged without interruption and stacked on the protrusion bodies; a second drive configured to be operated in conjunction with the feed conveyor so as to move the carriage in a discharge direction of the sheet products after the protrusion bodies are lowered in such a manner that the sheet products nipped between the protrusion bodies and the feed conveyor are fed; and a third drive configured to elevate and lower the shutter bars to adjust heights of the shutter bars, lower ends of the shutter bars are disposed on higher positions than top surfaces of the fed sheet products and on lower positions than upper surfaces of the protrusion bodies when the sheet products are stacked and then fed, the lower ends of the shutter bars are lowered to a position corresponding to an upper surface of the feed conveyor or to a lower position than the upper surface of the feed conveyor when downstream ends of the sheet products arrive at or pass over the shutter bars; wherein the coming sheet products are engaged with the shutter bars so as to be kept on and stood by while the sheet products are fed; and then the coming sheet products are lowered to the feed conveyor after the sheet products are fed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14159556', '15036045', '12037659', '15752676', '12295290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8362570233569198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5020634665309414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8028376676743219
- Mean Citation Score: 201.93073
- Max Citation Score: 316.56607
- Similarity Product: 285.3761754220742

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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