PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16307603
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["100", "037000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a screw press apparatus ( 1 ) comprising an outer casing ( 2 ) surrounding a screening tube ( 6 a ) with a plurality of liquid discharge holes, a slurry inlet port ( 3 ) at one end of the screening tube and a solids discharge port ( 4 ) at an opposite end of the screening tube, the screening tube housing an axially located auger ( 5 ), the outer casing ( 2 ) having a first opening in fluid communication with the slurry inlet port ( 3 ), a second opening in fluid communication with the solids discharge port ( 4 ), and a third opening ( 8 ) in fluid communication with the liquid discharge holes of the screening tube ( 6 ), a cleaning device ( 20 ) located between the outer casing and the screening tube, a device ( 10 ) for axially moving the cleaning device. The cleaning device ( 20 ) has a rigid co-axial liquid supply pipe ( 30 ) having at least one washing pipe ( 21, 22, 23, 24 ) at least partially surrounding the screening tube ( 6 ), each at least one washing pipe ( 21, 22, 23, 24 ) containing a plurality of nozzles ( 211, 221, 231, 241 ) facing the screening tube ( 6 a ). The screw press apparatus is especially suited for processing protein containing slurries, and in another aspect the invention relates to a method of producing a gluten product using the screw press apparatus.

Claim (Index 10):
A screw press apparatus according to  claim 8 , wherein at least one washing pipe ( 22 ,  24 ) has a closed configuration in the form of a circle, a rectangle or any other polygonal shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.93684
- Patent Class: 100.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12971101', '10398554', '12405898', '10540472', '10424297']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7094422769372549
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4996637631431392
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6884644255578434
- Mean Citation Score: 155.353694
- Max Citation Score: 158.14532
- Similarity Product: 92.85221210253717

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

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