PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "459300"]

Abstract:
A spacing drum comprising: a segment receiving drum section capable of receiving a predetermined number of segments per revolution of the drum from a procession of segments approaching the segment receiving drum section at a segment-feed spacing and a segment-feed speed; a segment releasing drum section capable of releasing the predetermined number of segments at a segment-release spacing and a segment-release speed; and a radial profile flight comprising a continuous arc segment extending across at least portions of the segment receiving drum section and the segment releasing drum section. Associated methods are also provided, including method of changing pitch along a spacing drum progressively with a radial profile flight.

Claim (Index 19):
A spacing drum comprising:\n a drum body having a segment-receiving end and a segment-releasing end; and a first radial profile flight disposed along the drum body, the first radial profile flight defined by a radius and a first offset arc center such that adjacent the segment-releasing end of the spacing drum, a releasing arcuate portion of the first radial profile flight is configured to push a segment along a segment path at a desired segment-exit speed, the first radial profile flight including a second arcuate portion adjacent the segment-receiving end of the drum body, the second arcuate portion being configured to push the segment at a segment-receiving speed different from the desired segment-exit speed; the first radial profile flight including an arcuate intermediate portion extending continuously between the releasing arcuate portion and the second arcuate portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15502461', '10698075', '10567194', '11141701', '12158634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7092849479745039
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4508199221229798
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6834384453893516
- Mean Citation Score: 151.02112199999996
- Max Citation Score: 156.91653
- Similarity Product: 113.0544771918994

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