PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037750
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["096", "416000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and method for reducing airborne proppant adjacent a fracking material handling system. In some embodiments, a proppant storage chamber is configured to store a volume of proppant. A blow-in adapter mates with a first port of the chamber to facilitate a flow of proppant into the chamber at an inlet pressure. A filter assembly covers and filter a first aperture of the chamber to reduce an emission of airborne proppant during the transfer of the proppant into the proppant storage chamber. A vacuum adapter mates with a second port of the chamber to supply a negative pressure to the chamber during the filling process to maintain an internal pressure within the chamber below a predetermined pressure threshold.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a proppant storage chamber configured to store a volume of proppant; a blow-in adapter configured to mate with a first port of the proppant storage chamber to facilitate a flow of proppant into the proppant storage chamber from a proppant delivery system comprising a blower that introduces a pressurized flow of the proppant through the first port at an inlet pressure; a filter assembly configured to cover and filter a first aperture of the proppant storage chamber to reduce an emission of airborne proppant during the transfer of the proppant into the proppant storage chamber; and a vacuum adapter configured to mate with a second port of the proppant storage chamber to further reduce said emission of the airborne proppant during the transfer of proppant into the proppant storage chamber, the vacuum adapter attachable to a vacuum line connected to a vacuum source to supply a negative pressure to an interior of the proppant storage chamber during said transfer and maintain an internal pressure within the proppant storage chamber below a predetermined pressure threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03279
- Patent Class: 96.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14152914', '13836108', '15584071', '13959203', '14209478']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6539376912976445
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5328924812758958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6418331702954696
- Mean Citation Score: 314.506596
- Max Citation Score: 390.5999
- Similarity Product: 300.8843067543924

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