PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["198", "459200"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing of multi-element rods of the tobacco industry comprising a feeding apparatus, a transferring apparatus, and a forming apparatus, comprising a first rotational element provided with lugs immobile relative to the first rotational element, a second rotational element provided with lugs immobile relative to the second rotational element, a third rotational element provided with lugs immobile relative to the third rotational element, used to convey rod-like elements. The rotational elements having notches between the lugs adapted to receive and convey the rod-like elements, whereas the rotational elements are arranged and adapted to guide the rod-like elements successively through the rotational elements. The apparatus comprises the forming apparatus designed to form a continuous multi-element rod, and a cutting apparatus. The apparatus according to the invention is characterised in that the third lugs have a thickness smaller than the thickness of the first lugs.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for manufacturing of multi-element rods of the tobacco industry comprising\n a feeding apparatus ( 5 ) designed to feed rod-like elements (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ), a transferring apparatus ( 3 ,  3 \u2032) designed to transfer the rod-like elements (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ) or groups (G) of the rod-like elements (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ) from the apparatus ( 5 ) feeding the rod-like elements (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ) to a forming apparatus ( 11 ), comprising\n a first rotational element ( 6 ,  6 \u2032) provided with first lugs ( 16 ,  16 \u2032), having a first thickness (e 1 ), immobile relative to the first rotational element ( 6 ,  6 \u2032), and notches ( 26 ,  26 \u2032) between the first lugs ( 16 ,  16 \u2032), \n a second rotational element ( 7 ,  7 \u2032) provided with second lugs ( 17 ,  17 \u2032), having a second thickness (e 2 ), immobile relative to the second rotational element ( 7 ,  7 \u2032), and notches ( 27 ,  27 \u2032) between the second lugs ( 17 ,  17 \u2032), \n a third rotational element ( 8 ,  8 \u2032) provided with third lugs ( 18 ,  18 \u2032), having a third thickness (e 3 ), immobile relative to the third rotational element ( 8 ,  8 \u2032), and notches ( 28 ,  28 \u2032) between the third lugs ( 18 ,  18 \u2032), \n used to convey the rod-like elements (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ), the notches ( 26 ,  26 \u2032) between the first lugs ( 16 ,  16 \u2032), the notches ( 27 ,  27 \u2032) between the second lugs ( 17 ,  17 \u2032) and the notches ( 28 ,  28 \u2032) between the third lugs ( 18 ,  18 \u2032) being adapted to receive and convey the individual rod-like elements (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ) or the groups (G) of the rod-like elements (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ), whereas the first rotational element ( 6 ,  6 \u2032), the second rotational element ( 7 ,  7 \u2032) and the third rotational element ( 8 ,  8 \u2032) are arranged and adapted to guide the rod-like elements (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ) successively through the first rotational element ( 6 ,  6 \u2032), the second rotational element ( 7 ,  7 \u2032) and the third rotational element ( 8 ,  8 \u2032), the apparatus comprises the forming apparatus ( 11 ) designed to form a continuous multi-element rod (CR), a cutting apparatus ( 13 ) designed to cut the continuous multi-element rod (CR) into individual multi-element rods (R), characterised in that the third lugs ( 18 ,  18 \u2032) have the third thickness (e 3 ) smaller than the first thickness (e 1 ) of the first lugs ( 16 ,  16 \u2032).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57377
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14414237', '15331131', '15703683', '15069634', '15696917']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7102047868419544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4746323850949318
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6866475466672521
- Mean Citation Score: 167.36147400000004
- Max Citation Score: 187.89114
- Similarity Product: 115.55387043234944

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

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