PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16076391
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["198", "617000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for grouping preferably empty long products ( 4 ) embodied as tins, tubes or cartridges, the products ( 4 ) being delivered by a delivering conveyor device ( 5 ), preferably from a production line for producing the products ( 4 ), and placed on a conveyer belt ( 3 ) and transported thereby at a conveying speed along a conveying section (S) in a conveying direction (F), a product group (P) comprising a plurality of the products ( 4 ) being transferred by transfer means ( 7 ) at the same time from the conveyor belt ( 3 ) into receiving means ( 6 ), the transfer means ( 7 ) for transferring the products ( 4 ) being moved during the movement with the product group (P) in the conveying direction (F) at an angle, particularly perpendicularly, to the conveying direction (F) in a transfer direction (T) towards the receiving means ( 6 ), the receiving means ( 6 ) being moved perpendicularly to the conveying direction (F) and perpendicularly to the transfer direction (T), in order to be able to receive the subsequent product groups (P) above or below the already transferred product groups (P), after the transfer of each product group (P) or after the transfer of a plurality of product groups (P). The receiving means ( 6 ) and the transfer means ( 7 ) are moved along the conveying section (S) in the conveying direction (F) during the transfer of the product group (P), particularly synchronously with the conveyor belt ( 3 ) and the product groups (P) conveyed thereon and to be passed on, and following a successful transfer, are moved along the conveying section (S), in the opposite direction to the conveying direction (F), in order to transfer another product group (P′) into the receiving means ( 6 ).

Claim (Index 3):
The method according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein in a receiving unit of the receiving means ( 6 ) in the form of a pin plate, a clip plate, or a vacuum plate, products are received next to each other in the conveying direction (F) and one above the other perpendicular to the conveying direction (F) and perpendicular to the transfer direction (T) and wherein after multiple transfers, in each of which the receiving unit has been loaded with a group of products, the receiving unit is replaced with an empty receiving unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.74747
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15106248', '15269109', '14395702', '13254276', '10700769']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7031396675739633
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900109277228924
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6818267935888562
- Mean Citation Score: 192.264774
- Max Citation Score: 212.15112
- Similarity Product: 128.02914363422872

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

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