PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16260463
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["366", "137100"]

Abstract:
A mixing chamber for mixing a variety of dry ingredients with a liquid is disclosed. The mixing chamber has an accumulation chamber that evenly distributes ingredients as they pass a liquid spray nozzle, resulting in uniform hydration. The liquid may be sprayed at a variety of pressures to achieve varying levels of granule hydration to permit the manufacture of dough, batter, or other compositions. Even dry ingredients which are generally slow to absorb moisture may be rapidly and evenly hydrated without an excess of liquid. Process parameters, such as volume flow rate of the dry ingredients, can also be varied.

Claim (Index 6):
An apparatus for receiving free-falling dry ingredients, hydrating the ingredients, and directing the hydrated ingredients to a mixing tube, the apparatus comprising:\n a variable inlet opening for receiving the dry ingredients; a first flange surrounding the inlet opening and configured to connect an accumulation chamber to the variable inlet; a diverter in the accumulation chamber that directs the ingredients outwardly toward an inwardly-tapered wall configured to redirect the ingredients towards a center of the accumulation chamber; a discharge nozzle that depends from the diverter and discharges a pressurized liquid so that hydrates the ingredients after the ingredients pass the diverter; and, a mixing tube that receives the hydrated ingredients.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57143
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15532503', '12319800', '11276549', '11737690', '13477119']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8162496259947131
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4936455621836085
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7839892196136027
- Mean Citation Score: 192.6842
- Max Citation Score: 313.00436
- Similarity Product: 270.878996850605

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

Dataset: test