PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16302028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["159", "016200"]

Abstract:
A submerged combustion apparatus for heating a liquid including a liquid vessel that contains the liquid, a combustion chamber including a combustion chamber body, an inlet and a plurality of discharge ports, the combustion chamber body being positioned in the vessel so that at least the discharge ports are submerged in liquid in use, a burner that allows an air/fuel mixture to be burned at least partially within the combustion chamber thereby causing bubbles of heated gaseous combustion products to be emitted from the discharge ports so as to heat the liquid and a guide surface spaced apart from and extending along at least part of a length of a combustion chamber body outer surface so as to guide bubbles emitted from the discharge ports so that the bubbles are at least partially constrained to flow between the combustion chamber body outer surface and the guide surface.

Claim (Index 7):
Apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein the sloped base surface at least one of:\n a) is curved so as to funnel any precipitates to the outlet; b) slopes downwardly from under the combustion chamber to the outlet to thereby induce flow of liquid and any precipitates from a region under the combustion chamber towards the outlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4127
- Patent Class: 159.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10832587', '13157606', '14785330', '11186459', '15610215']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6916060959917125
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5558765808378882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6780331444763301
- Mean Citation Score: 223.866594
- Max Citation Score: 241.64226
- Similarity Product: 171.09993270329468

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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