PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15781730
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["198", "861100"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a line sorter for sorting items of various shapes, sizes and weights, in particular postal parcels or airport baggage. The line sorter ( 102 ) has a closed loop of coupled sorting carts or slats provided for moving along a loop track formed by an upper track section ( 104 ), a lower track section ( 106 ), one end track section connecting the upper and lower track sections at each of two ends of the line sorter, and one or more adjustment elements also forming part of the track loop. One of the end track sections  108, 109  can be longitudinally displaced relative to the upper and lower track sections to increase or decrease the resulting length of the track loop. The adjustment element(s) ( 210, 211 ) is movably mounted between said end track section and an adjacent upper or lower track section. A wedge shaped portion of the adjustment element is arranged for adjustable engagement with a correspondingly shaped portion of said end track section, or the upper or lower track section. This allows adjustment of a length of the track loop in accordance with displacement of said end track section, and still close a gap in the track by means of the adjustment element.

Claim (Index 16):
Use of a line sorter according to  claim 1  in an airport, a distribution centre or in another sorting facility.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15736131', '15778648', '10788063', '14336811', '13429637']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7531622340242138
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4960124006623096
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7274472506880234
- Mean Citation Score: 238.72813
- Max Citation Score: 302.3435
- Similarity Product: 205.80228425431253

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

Dataset: test