PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["156", "577000"]

Abstract:
A tape head or tape applicator applies low impact to the leading face of the incoming carton and low pressure to the top of the carton and a higher pressure to wipe down the tape onto the rear or trailing face of the case by increasing the tension in the spring driving the wipe down and a high cutting force to the cut-off mechanism for fast response of the cut-off mechanism by increasing the tension in the spring driving the cut-off mechanism.

Claim (Index 1):
A tape applicator, comprising a frame, a source of tape mounted on said frame, a front applicator assembly including a front applicator to apply a leading end of a tape from said source to a leading face of a carton moving relative to said tape applicator pivotably mounted on said frame on a first pivotal axis, a rear wipe down assembly including a rear wipe down roll to wipe a tape applied to said carton along a trailing face of said carton remote from said leading face pivotably mounted on said frame on a second pivotal axis parallel to said first pivotal axis, a push bar link interconnecting said applicator assembly and said wipe down assembly for movement together to form a tape applicator assembly, a cut-off mechanism mounted on said frame on a third pivotal axis parallel to said first and second pivotal axes and positioned between said first and second axes, a nonlinear helical coil applicator spring connected at one end to said applicator assembly and a nonlinear helical coil cut-off spring connected at a first end to said cut-off mechanism, a spring pressure adjuster mechanism connected directly to an opposite end of said applicator spring remote from said one end and directly to a second end of said cut-off spring remote from said first end to adjust the extension of said applicator and cut-off springs, said spring pressure adjuster mechanism including an actuator and a controller controlling the delivery of power to said actuator to have low tension in said applicator spring and said cut-off spring and to increase tensions in the applicator and said cut off springs before said wipe down and cut-off mechanism are activated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02439
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15981492', '13137550', '12318877', '11976346', '13573657']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9028291322451832
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.573310502518544
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8698772692725193
- Mean Citation Score: 312.77942399999995
- Max Citation Score: 456.08655
- Similarity Product: 450.5905834574282

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

Dataset: test