PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["271", "145000"]

Abstract:
A packaging machine hopper is provided for holding a stack of packaging articles with each article in a generally horizontal orientation. The hopper comprises a support for holding at least part of the stack at an angle to vertical.

Claim (Index 17):
A sleeving machine hopper arrangement, the arrangement being formed as a change part which is securable and removable from a sleeving machine, the arrangement comprising a support plate, a plurality of hopper rods are carried on or by said support plate, each of said hopper rods including a major rod portion which is inclined with respect to said plate, each of said rods further comprising a terminal crank portion, said terminal crank portions extending generally orthogonally to said plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32258
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12018778', '11031876', '13436250', '13541272', '15352685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7126232939663237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4675033348805613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6881112980577475
- Mean Citation Score: 123.44459000000002
- Max Citation Score: 128.71503
- Similarity Product: 82.81710098809363

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

Dataset: test