PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927253
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "246000"]

Abstract:
The sheet stacker includes a sheet conveyor arrangement, configured for feeding a plurality of sheets and having a sheet discharge end, and a stacking bay. In the stacking bay sheets delivered by the sheet conveyor arrangement are formed into stacks. A stack conveyor is provided in the stacking bay and is movable in a conveyor direction parallel to a sheet feeding direction, according to which the sheets are fed from the sheet discharge end onto the stack conveyor. The sheet discharge end is configured and controlled such that it is gradually lifted during sheet stacking, in order to accommodate a growing stack of sheets being formed on the stack conveyor. A stop plate is positioned in the stacking bay above the stack conveyor and in front of the sheet discharge end of the sheet conveyor arrangement. The stop plate is configured and controlled to be gradually lifted from the stack conveyor as the sheet stack grows, to be withdrawn upon completion of the stack thus allowing removal of the stack in an evacuation direction substantially parallel to the conveyor direction, and to be lowered towards the stack conveyor again.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , further comprising lifting the sheet discharge end from a top of the stack under formation on the stack conveyor when the stack under formation is moved by the stack conveyor towards the sheet discharge end during back-and-forth staggering motion of the stack conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15274606', '15923276', '15724880', '13697224', '14113591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7668771710409019
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5655423980940518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.746743693746217
- Mean Citation Score: 317.422608
- Max Citation Score: 489.6414
- Similarity Product: 407.7909714517952

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

Dataset: test