PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16065674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["156", "256000"]

Abstract:
The current invention concerns an improved method for intermittently providing strips of a continuous first web material onto a continuous second web material, in particular a method for manufacturing tampon blanks, in a continuous process, thus avoiding the disadvantages of stop-and-go methods. Furthermore, an apparatus or system is provided for executing said methods.

Claim (Index 8):
Apparatus for manufacturing a tampon laminate, comprising:\n a. a sealing station for bonding strips of a first web material to a second web material; b. a first conveying system comprising:\n i. one or more conveying means for conveying the first web material to the sealing station at a first speed; \n ii. a separation station, comprising a cutting roller and a counterpressure roller, for cutting the strips of the first web material; \n c. a second conveying system comprising:\n i. one or more conveying means for conveying the second web material to the sealing station at a second speed, whereby the second speed is configured to be higher than the first speed; \n characterized in that the sealing station comprises a set of two rolls arranged for pressing a strip to the second web material, thereby accelerating the strip to the second speed, said two rolls arranged to bond the strip to the second web material at least partially essentially concurrently with accelerating said strip, and in that there is a pathway along the first web material between where strips are cut and where strips are bonded, whereby said pathway has a length about equal to a length of the strips.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43902
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14115765', '15774378', '12990614', '14826258', '11107437']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8660458005225018
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856974984465995
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8280109703149117
- Mean Citation Score: 157.49213
- Max Citation Score: 164.7527
- Similarity Product: 114.2759291963756

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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