PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16313523
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "819000"]

Abstract:
A conveyor apparatus includes an endless conveyor belt wound around outgoing path side guide pulleys in turn along a helical conveyance path in a bent state where the belt is folded in two in a width direction such that an upper edge portion thereof is supported by the outgoing path side guide pulleys, and wound around returning path side guide pulleys in turn along the helical conveyance path in the bent state where the belt is folded in two in the width direction such that the upper edge portion is supported by the returning path side guide pulleys, and folded back at each turning positions of a horizontal conveyance unit located at an upper side and a horizontal conveyance unit located at a lower side of the support frame and being in an expanded state where the belt expanded in the width direction in a vicinity of the turning position.

Claim (Index 7):
The conveyor apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein each of the conveyor belt support mechanisms includes:\n a roller support plate attached on each of a plurality of support shafts located between the corner portions of the support frame to protrude outwardly; an outer side support roller attached to a position at an outer side spaced apart from a support shaft of the roller support plate; and an inner side support roller attached to a position at an inner side with respect to the outer side support roller of the roller support plate, wherein the outer side support roller comes in contact with an outer surface of the one end of the endless conveyor belt, the inner side support roller is formed in a truncated cone shape and comes in contact with the inclined lower surface of the other end of endless conveyor belt disposed at the lower side with respect to the one end, and the outer side support roller and the inner side support roller sandwich and support, from outside and inside, the upper edge portion of the endless conveyor belt in the bent state where the endless conveyor belt is folded in two in the width direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68421
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15328836', '15117394', '12235800', '14758062', '11671301']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7171994063088464
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4771273624315897
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6931922019211207
- Mean Citation Score: 220.910174
- Max Citation Score: 243.33847000000003
- Similarity Product: 192.2792698670244

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

Dataset: test