PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15774993
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "512100"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a heavy solids separator for separating solids from fluids, comprising a swirl-generating chamber ( 1 ) and a solids accumulation chamber ( 2 ), wherein the swirl-generating chamber ( 1 ) comprises an inlet ( 3 ), a solids outlet ( 4 ) and a fluid extraction pipe ( 5 ) arranged at the centerline (C) of the chamber ( 1 ), the inlet arranged at an upper part of the swirl-generating chamber, the solids outlet is fluidly connected to the solids accumulation chamber and arranged in the bottom of the swirl-generating chamber, and the fluid extraction pipe ( 5 ) has a fluid inlet ( 6,19 ) comprising an opening ( 6 ) arranged at the centerline of the fluid extraction pipe, the opening facing the solids outlet ( 4 ), and a fluid outlet ( 7 ) for extracting fluid out of the swirl-generating chamber; and the solids accumulation chamber ( 2 ) comprises a solids inlet ( 8 ) fluidly connected to the solids outlet ( 4 ) of the swirl-generating chamber, and a solids outlet ( 9 ) arranged in a lower part of the solids accumulation chamber; and at least parts of the swirl-generating chamber and the solids accumulation chamber are arranged in a cylindrical housing ( 12 ) comprising a funnel-shaped frustoconical element ( 13 ) delimiting at least a lower section of the swirl-generating chamber and an upper section of the solids accumulation chamber, the funnel-shaped frustoconical element has an upper opening ( 14 ) and a lower opening ( 15 ), the upper opening having a larger diameter than the lower opening; wherein the solids accumulation chamber ( 2 ) comprises a fluid outlet ( 10 ) arranged above the level of the solids inlet ( 8 ) and fluidly connected downstream of the fluid outlet ( 7 ) of the fluid extraction pipe.

Claim (Index 3):
A separator according to  claim 1 , wherein the fluid outlet of the solids accumulation chamber is fluidly connected downstream of the fluid outlet of the fluid extraction pipe such that fluids exiting the fluid outlet in the solids accumulation chamber and fluids exiting the fluid outlet of the fluid extraction pipe are combined into a common product fluid flow during use.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.06098
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12280997', '14758228', '13877400', '13928827', '13112185']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8180293538120268
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5018388076229682
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.786410299193121
- Mean Citation Score: 251.336122
- Max Citation Score: 261.08636
- Similarity Product: 182.7157705011845

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

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