PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884516
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["210", "512100"]

Abstract:
A grit removal unit for a wastewater system including a grit removal chamber with a substantially annular vertical wall. A horizontal annular ring above the chamber bottom extends inwardly from the annular vertical wall, with an influent channel extending into the chamber beneath the ring and an effluent channel above the rim and extending out of the chamber. The influent and effluent channels both have inner side walls with a curved portion, with both curved portions extending through an arc of at least 90 degrees within the chamber annular vertical wall.

Claim (Index 1):
A grit removal unit for a wastewater system, comprising:\n a round grit removal chamber defined by a substantially horizontal bottom surface and a substantially annular vertical wall extending up from said bottom surface; a substantially horizontal annular ring spaced above said chamber bottom surface and extending inwardly from the chamber annular vertical wall to an inner edge, said ring extending around the entirety of the chamber annular vertical wall; and an enclosed influent channel extending into said chamber beneath the ring, said influent channel having an outer side wall with a planar portion tangent to said chamber annular vertical wall and an inner side wall with a planar portion and a curved portion extending through an arc of at least about 90 degrees within said chamber annular vertical wall, wherein said inner side wall curved portion extends downwardly from the inner edge of the ring to the chamber bottom surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14823488', '13837712', '15149760', '13447539', '13130659']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7873928649158224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5674256098103783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.765396139405278
- Mean Citation Score: 324.492768
- Max Citation Score: 446.1483
- Similarity Product: 439.017385229248

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

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