PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["118", "309000"]

Abstract:
A particulate duster system includes a duster used to apply particulate matter to a food product moving along a conveyor positioned beneath the duster. The duster is used to uniformly dispense particulate matter onto a moving product conveyor for carrying a food product to be dusted.

Claim (Index 1):
A particulate application apparatus for applying particulate matter to a substrate comprising:\n a particulate sifter assembly, the particulate sifter assembly including an elongated sifter housing and an upper sifter plate and a lower sifter plate positioned within the sifter housing, wherein at least one of the upper sifter plate and the lower sifter plate moves with respect to the other of the upper sifter plate and the lower sifter plate to sift the particulate matter and release the particulate matter beneath the sifter housing; and a particulate applicator assembly positioned beneath and coupled to the particulate sifter assembly, the particulate applicator assembly having an applicator housing that includes a plurality of rotatable discs, the applicator housing further including a curved bottom wall formed to include a series of openings, wherein rotation of the rotating discs causes particulate matter received from the particulate sifter assembly to be deposited below the particulate applicator assembly onto the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15092497', '11465163', '12967271', '11351447', '12283103']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8032909214224169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5633719752596315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7792990268061383
- Mean Citation Score: 253.63244
- Max Citation Score: 510.04187
- Similarity Product: 329.0160919334471

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

Dataset: test