PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767952
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["156", "358000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus ( 1 ) for labelling a package ( 2 ) including an advancing device ( 3 ), a dispensing device ( 4 ), an application device ( 6 ) and a control device ( 7 ). The application device includes a punch ( 10 ) having a punch shank ( 8 ) with a second shank end ( 8 b ) to which a punch foot ( 9 ) for moving a dispensed label ( 5 ) from at least one receiving position (A, A′) to at least one delivery position (B) is connected, and a plurality of motors ( 11, 12, 13, 14 ) controlled by the control device, each of which is configured to move the punch shank in a direction parallel to one of at least three different directions (X, Y, Z, C). The motors are mounted such that during simultaneous movement of the punch shank by the motors, none of the motors change position relative to another of the motors. A method for labelling a package is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 30):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the punch foot is a blow-off and/or suction nozzle and the punch shank and/or the punch foot is connected to a compressed air connection for applying an underpressure and/or an overpressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1413
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10030419', '13508928', '12729110', '14235204', '14235222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8964151311126342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4870773217294172
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8554813501743124
- Mean Citation Score: 156.14394599999997
- Max Citation Score: 159.38196000000005
- Similarity Product: 103.31074607199672

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