PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16308144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["053", "396000"]

Abstract:
There is described a packaging apparatus ( 1 ) for forming sealed packages ( 2 ) from a tube ( 3 ). The packaging apparatus ( 1 ) has an endless conveyor device ( 7 ) arranged in a conveyor zone ( 8 ), conveying carts ( 9 ) and operative units ( 10, 10′ ) moved by the plurality of conveying carts ( 9 ) along a path (P, Q). Each operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) moves between an operative configuration, in which the operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) manipulates the tube ( 3 ) and a rest configuration in which the operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) is detached from the tube ( 3 ). Each operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) has a halfshell ( 36 ) and one of a sealing element ( 37 a ) or a counter-sealing element ( 37 b ) and each operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) is carried by one respective conveying cart ( 9 ) and extends laterally away therefrom so that the conveyor zone ( 8 ) is laterally spaced apart from an operative zone ( 33 ) where the tube is manipulated.

Claim (Index 28):
The packaging apparatus according to  claim 16 , further comprising:\n an additional endless conveyor device arranged in the conveyor zone and facing the endless conveyor device; a plurality of additional conveying carts configured to cooperate with and to advance along the additional endless conveyor device; and a plurality of additional operative units moved by the additional conveying carts along an additional path defined by the movement of the additional conveying carts and having an additional operative portion parallel to the advancement axis and the operative portion of the first path; wherein each additional operative unit is carried by one respective conveying cart and extends laterally away therefrom; wherein each additional operative unit is configured to be selectively moved between a respective operative configuration, reached along said additional operative portion of the additional path and in which the additional operative unit is configured to manipulate the tube in collaboration with one respective operative unit, and a respective rest configuration, reached along an additional rest portion of the additional path distinct from the additional operative portion and in which the additional operative unit is detached from the tube; wherein each additional operative unit comprises:\n an additional half-shell configured to at least partially define in cooperation with the half-shell of the respective operative unit the shape of the packages; and \n the other one of a sealing element or a counter-sealing element configured to transversally seal the tube between adjacent packages in collaboration with the counter-sealing element or the sealing element of the respective operative unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15542796', '15542730', '15301877', '14442758', '13125218']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7370182817549076
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4846940353738553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7117858571168023
- Mean Citation Score: 195.467426
- Max Citation Score: 218.26387000000005
- Similarity Product: 156.12298049373092

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

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