PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16095711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "657000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an auger dip apparatus for the application of antimicrobial solution to raw food. Embodiments of the present disclosure may use an auger as a single moving part to move the food work pieces through the application area for antimicrobial solution. Embodiments of the present disclosure are simple with only one moving auger part to move the food pieces, and the bearing for the moving part, supporting the shaft of the auger, may be configured to be outside of the cabinet with the reservoir of the antimicrobial solution, so that the bearing is not in contact with the antimicrobial solution. This provides for less maintenance and downtime, particularly unscheduled downtime, than a system using more complicated exposed parts. The present disclosure also permits a more compact and lighter configuration for an assembled application unit.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus in  claim 5 , wherein the cabinet further comprises:\n (a) an entrance hopper in the top of the lower end of the cabinet, (b) an exit in the bottom of the upper end of the cabinet with a 360 degree rinse in the exit, (c) a drainage grid in the bottom of the cabinet above the level of the reservoir of the antimicrobial solution, (d) a flap over the entrance hopper, hingedly attached to the lower edge of the hopper opening, structured to be pushed up to close off the hopper by each flight of the auger as the flight moves up across the hopper entrance, and which flap is structured to fall between the flights and open the hopper as each flight passes under the upper edge of the hopper, (e) a catch pan beneath the drainage grid structured to catch antimicrobial solution draining through the grid and to return the solution to a recycle tank, (f) a lid over the top of the cabinet with a plurality of cam latches closing the lid over the cabinet, and a plurality of limit switches in series, which switches are closed when the lid is closed, and which switches are wired in series and structured such that the auger may rotate only when the lid is closed and each switch is closed; and (g) one or more photo electric eye sensors on the entrance hopper configured to detect work pieces entering the cabinet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05479
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14846251', '15349789', '11354752', '15057803', '14965370']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7263311735125266
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4567437555597019
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6993724317172442
- Mean Citation Score: 133.14899599999998
- Max Citation Score: 141.33243000000004
- Similarity Product: 95.527294578774

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

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