PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911652
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["206", "423000"]

Abstract:
A food support tray comprised of an expanded paperboard mesh tray insert for a delivery carton such as a pizza carton or a fresh produce clamshell. The expanded paperboard mesh is adapted for supporting pizza or other food items on the bond peaks of the expanded mesh, thus isolating the food item from oil and juices that could make the fresh food item turn soggy.

Claim (Index 18):
Apparatus for forming an open mesh food support tray from paperboard comprising:\n a. a deployment stand for supporting a roll of raw paperboard having a predetermined width such that said raw paperboard may be removed from said roll as a continuous strip of paperboard; b. a knife station having a plurality of spaced apart knives positioned to cut transversely oriented spaced apart slits through said continuous strip; c. a pre-stretching station having a plurality of rollers for engaging said continuous strip and longitudinally tensioning said continuous strip such that said slits open and the predetermined width of the strip diminishes to form a mesh pattern of connected strands of paperboard surrounding a plurality of apertures in an expanded paperboard mesh strip; d. a curing oven; e. a down draft cooling station adjacent said curing oven; f. a metering roller engaging said expanded paperboard mesh strip and urging it through said curing oven and down draft cooling station at a predetermined tension; and, g. a cutter extending transversely of said expanded paperboard mesh strip and operable to cut said expanded paper board mesh strip in to lengths suitable for use as food support trays.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47826
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11712294', '12396589', '11981359', '13186728', '14850622']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7441459010103179
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914943687689194
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.718880747786178
- Mean Citation Score: 143.43393
- Max Citation Score: 153.43599
- Similarity Product: 93.56594971703232

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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