PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979784
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["222", "386500"]

Abstract:
A dry bulk tank and a method of carrying a load and discharging a load therefrom. The dry bulk tank includes a tank assembly having a first wall that bounds and defines a first compartment for carrying a load therein and a second wall spaced outwardly from at least a portion of the first wall; wherein a second compartment is defined between the first wall and the second wall. The tank assembly includes an air piping system that is selectively actuated to place the first compartment and the second compartment under substantially similar or substantially equal air pressure. In one example the air piping system pumps air into the first compartment and the second compartment. In another example the air piping system evacuates air from the first and second compartments.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of loading and unloading a dry bulk tank comprising:\n providing a tank assembly defining a first compartment for carrying a load and a second compartment located vertically beneath at least a portion of the first compartment; wherein the second compartment never receives or carries any portion of the load from the first compartment therein; and wherein the second compartment is in abutting contact with the first compartment; and placing the first compartment and second compartment in fluid communication with a device for pressurizing air in the first and second compartments or with a device for creating a vacuum in the first and second compartments.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26667
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15979603', '15979523', '13440603', '15056237', '15056496']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7624654189746028
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5679220176763031
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7430110788447729
- Mean Citation Score: 309.134058
- Max Citation Score: 487.40323
- Similarity Product: 388.8903029891968

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

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