PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926855
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["414", "810000"]

Abstract:
Method of emptying a container filled with rod-like articles manufactured in the tobacco industry comprising the following stages: the container to be emptied is delivered to the entrance area of an intermediate store comprising adjacent channels separated from one another by walls; by means of supporting plates the rod-like articles are transferred from the container to the channels of the intermediate store; the channels of the intermediate store are filled with the rod-like articles; characterised in that during the transfer of the rod-like articles (R) from the container ( 5 ) to the channels ( 7 ) of the intermediate store ( 2 ) the intermediate store ( 2 ) makes a reciprocating motion in the horizontal direction, transversely to the axis of the rod-like articles.

Claim (Index 4):
Method as in  claims 1  to  3  characterised in that during the transfer of the rod-like articles (R) from the container ( 5 ) to the channels ( 7 ) of the intermediate store ( 2 ) the intermediate store ( 2 ) makes a reciprocating motion with a stroke principally equal to the size of the diameter of rod-like articles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19672
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15703683', '14711470', '14232599', '14236296', '13576290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8529723791148137
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5158936883054323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8192645100338756
- Mean Citation Score: 211.429382
- Max Citation Score: 296.32242
- Similarity Product: 164.75270280650497

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

Dataset: test