PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15999217
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["406", "065000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an applicator having an agricultural product conveying system which transfers particulate material from one or more source containers to application equipment on demand, and meters the material at the application equipment. The conveying system includes an inline metering system including a number of metering devices associated with each compartment of a particulate material tank on the applicator to meter the particulate material disposed within each compartment. The individual metering devices include gates to initially enable the particulate material from a compartment to enter the metering device, and a rotary metering shaft to meter the flow of the particulate material into the conduits while limiting the passage of pressurized air through the metering device and into the compartment. The individual metering devices also include individual motors to control the operation of the metering devices independently from one another that can allow with sectional control and turning compensation.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of delivering a number of agricultural products from a number of compartments containing the number of products to a delivering unit to applying the products in a field, the method comprising the steps of: supplying the number of agricultural products from the number of particulate material supply compartments to a conveying system; metering the products from the number of compartments into the conveying system through at least one metering device including a housing connected between at least one of the compartments and the conveying system, a guide disposed on one end of the housing and defining an inlet opening disposed in alignment with a discharge aperture in an adjacent compartment, a gate slidably engaged with the guide to selectively open and close the inlet opening, a shaft disposed within the housing, the shaft including a number of curved paddles thereon, wherein the clearance between the paddles and the housing limits air flow through each metering device between the supply line and the adjacent particulate material supply compartment and a motor operably connected to the shaft to rotate the shaft within the housing; co-applying the agricultural product in the conveying system to form a combined product; conveying the combined products to the delivering unit; and applying the combined products from the delivering unit onto an agricultural field.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 406.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15652706', '15613900', '15652784', '15652755', '15652676']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7189602984283606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5578422403233652
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7028484926178611
- Mean Citation Score: 351.60609800000015
- Max Citation Score: 449.59848
- Similarity Product: 363.421339668417

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

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