PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745316
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["198", "844100"]

Abstract:
A conveyor belt ( 10 ) of closed-path type comprising a plurality of transport plates ( 50 ), defining a transport surface for the material in a forward run of the conveyor belt itself, which plates are arranged in sequence along a longitudinal transport direction (L), wherein each plate bears a first ( 55 ) and a second ( 56 ) longitudinal end portion thereat, in said forward run, it is respectively superimposed on an adjacent plate arranged upstream of the sequence with respect to the longitudinal transport direction and placed under an adjacent plate arranged downstream in such sequence, or vice versa; and an annular structure ( 51 ) for connecting said plates being arranged, in said forward run, below said plates, wherein at least one of said plates, at said first or second longitudinal portion of superimposing or placing under an adjacent plate, has a cross section with thickness (s) decreased with respect to a remaining portion of the plate itself.

Claim (Index 1):
A conveyor belt capable of the dry handling bulk material even at high temperature, such as DRI (Direct Reduced Iron) outgoing from reducing oven/reactor, which conveyor belt is of closed-path type and it comprises:\n transport plates optionally made of metal, which transport plates define a transport surface for the bulk material in a forward run of the conveyor belt, which transport plates are arranged in sequence along a transport longitudinal direction,\n wherein each transport plate bears a first and a second longitudinal end portion at which, in said forward run, it is respectively superimposed on an adjacent transport plate arranged upstream of the sequence with respect to the transport longitudinal direction and placed under an adjacent transport plate arranged downstream in such sequence, or vice versa; and \n an annular structure for connecting said transport plates, such annular structure beinu net-like shaped made of metal, which annular structure is arranged, in said forward run, below said transport plates, which annular structure acts as motion transmission organ and connects two drums arranged at longitudinal ends of the conveyor belt. wherein at least one of said transport plates has, at a low er surface of said first lonuitudinal portion superimposed to an adjacent plate or at an upper surface of said second longitudinal portion placed under an adjacent plate, a cross section with thickness decreased with respect to a remaining portion of the transport plate in such a way that step-like profiles at the contact between the conveyor belt and its supporting rollers are eliminated or reduced and that mechanical interference between said lower surface and an end edge of the adjacent transport plate during rotation on the two drums is eliminated, \n and wherein said connection between each transport plate and said annular structure is obtained in a plate region distinct from said first and second longitudinal portion of superimposing/placing under adjacent plates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11992447', '14905932', '14111611', '13990572', '15551145']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7310402556143675
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4663614712313462
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7045723771760655
- Mean Citation Score: 165.92823599999997
- Max Citation Score: 188.93726
- Similarity Product: 130.74837374294998

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

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