PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "086000"]

Abstract:
A direct printing machine for printing containers with a direct print, having at least one stationary direct printing station with a direct print head, an ink supply system for supplying ink to the direct print head, and with a conveyor for conveying the containers past at the direct printing station, the ink supply system comprising a supply line and/or a return line for the printing ink, for producing ink flow from a supply tank to the direct print head and/or back, wherein the ink supply system comprises at least one header tank arranged in the supply line and/or the return line for setting a meniscus pressure of the printing ink, and a valve terminal is arranged between the header tank and the direct print head to interrupt the ink flow over the direct print head and to produce it in a bypass line.

Claim (Index 2):
The direct printing machine according to  claim 1 , wherein the valve terminal comprises a switchable supply valve in the supply line and/or a switchable return valve in the return line and/or a switchable bypass valve in the bypass line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69643
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16089378', '12590007', '13941596', '13146036', '12132025']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.790292209732719
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4918527228517435
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7604482610446214
- Mean Citation Score: 227.19411
- Max Citation Score: 244.57881
- Similarity Product: 184.4022784115821

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

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