PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16458788
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["241", "079000"]

Abstract:
A grinding machine for grinding foodstuffs, such as meat or the like, includes an orifice plate at the outlet of a grinding head. The orifice plate has collection passages that discharge a mixture of soft material and hard material through the orifice plate. A separator assembly is positioned downstream of the orifice plate for separating the soft material from the hard material. The separator assembly includes a separator chamber that receives the mixture of soft material and hard material, in combination with a rotatable separator screw positioned within the separator chamber. Rotation of the separator screw functions to separate the soft material from the hard material. Soft material is discharged through perforations in the separator chamber and hard material is discharged through a discharge of the separator chamber.

Claim (Index 8):
A grinding machine comprising:\n a grinding head defining an opening; a rotatable advancement member positioned within the grinding head; an orifice plate positioned within the opening of the grinding head, wherein the orifice plate defines an upstream surface and a downstream surface, a plurality of grinding openings extending between the upstream surface and the downstream surface for discharging soft material through the orifice plate upon rotation of the rotatable advancement member, and one or more collection passages extending between the upstream surface and the downstream surface for discharging a mixture of soft material and hard material through the orifice plate upon rotation of the rotatable advancement member; and a separator assembly positioned downstream of the orifice plate, wherein the separator assembly receives the mixture of soft material and hard material from the one or more collection passages, the separator assembly including\n a separator chamber defining a separator passage having an intake end, a discharge, and a plurality of perforations that communicate with the separator passage, wherein the separator passage receives the mixture of soft material and hard material at the intake end, and \n a separator screw positioned within the separator passage of the separator chamber and connected to the rotatable advancement member, wherein rotation of the separator screw causes separation of soft material from the mixture of soft material and hard material, wherein the soft material is discharged through the plurality of perforations and hard material is discharged through the discharge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44643
- Patent Class: 241.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14966460', '14056223', '13073587', '11551492', '11551224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8245633681291809
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5745204400135472
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7995590753176175
- Mean Citation Score: 393.91849
- Max Citation Score: 474.01138
- Similarity Product: 459.9161011785197

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

Dataset: test