PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140367
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["198", "464200"]

Abstract:
Embodiments provide an electric lug loader system. An electric lug loader may include a shaft assembly rotatably mounted to a frame that extends across a flow path. The shaft assembly may have shafts arranged radially around, and parallel to, the rotational axis of the shaft assembly, clamp members arranged along each of the shafts, support members arranged radially around the rotational axis and across the flow path, and electric drives coupled to the shafts. Conveyors may be coupled with the frame and spaced apart across the flow path upstream and/or downstream of the shaft assembly. Additional drives may be coupled with the shaft assembly and the conveyors. A controller may be configured to synchronize the drives to engage successive workpieces between the clamp members and the support members and deposit the workpieces onto a lugged conveyor. Other embodiments provide related methods and systems.

Claim (Index 28):
A method of using a lug loader to load elongate workpieces traveling in a transverse orientation along a flow path onto a lugged conveyor downstream of the lug loader, wherein the lug loader has a shaft assembly with a rotational axis and a plurality of first shafts arranged radially around the rotational axis, a plurality of clamp members coupled with each of the first shafts, and a plurality of support members arranged along the rotational axis and coupled with the first shafts, the method comprising:\n rotating the shaft assembly from a first position to a second position to bring a first group of the support members into contact with a first one of the workpieces; rotating a corresponding one of the first shafts to move a corresponding first group of the clamp members to a clamping position to thereby engage said first one of the workpieces between the first group of support members and the first group of clamp members; rotating the shaft assembly from the second position to a third position to move the clamped workpiece along the flow path; and rotating the corresponding one of the first shafts to move the first group of the clamp members to a releasing position to thereby release said first one of the workpieces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14297504', '15167618', '15582580', '14055513', '14635862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7090942846519889
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.501920982405037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6883769544272937
- Mean Citation Score: 279.83142200000003
- Max Citation Score: 339.7596
- Similarity Product: 337.54356643702977

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

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