PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["404", "079000"]

Abstract:
A portable asphalt heater for heating asphalt includes an asphalt hopper having a floor, first and second side walls and front and rear end walls, the side walls and end walls extending from the floor and defining an opening into a cavity, the opening having an area lesser than an area of the floor, at least one door selectively closing the opening, a heating manifold including a heating chamber adjacent to and positioned beneath the floor, the heating manifold adapted to be in fluid communication with a heater assembly and adapted to direct a heated gas emitted from the heater assembly through the heating chamber and heating manifold, the plurality of chimneys in fluid communication with and extending from the heating chamber and along the first and second side walls, wherein the volume of asphalt when in the asphalt hopper is heated through contact with the asphalt hopper.

Claim (Index 23):
A method for heating and recycling a volume of used asphalt using a portable asphalt heater apparatus, the method comprising:\n loading the volume of used asphalt into a hopper of the portable asphalt heater, the hopper having a floor, first and second side walls and front and rear end walls, the side walls and end walls extending upwardly from the floor and defining an upper opening into the hopper, the opening above the floor and having an opening area which is less than a surface area of the floor, the hopper further including at least one door for selectively closing the upper opening, the portable asphalt heater further including a heating manifold including a heating chamber adjacent to and positioned beneath the floor, the heating manifold in fluid communication with a heater assembly, the asphalt heating manifold adapted to direct a heated gas emitted from the heater assembly through the heating chamber and heating manifold, loading one or more recycling additives into the hopper, is setting the heater assembly of the portable asphalt heater to maintain the volume of used asphalt at a recycling temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37879
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15926351', '13235756', '10860682', '15855403', '10458144']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6842892955338873
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4954742024530407
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6654077862258027
- Mean Citation Score: 217.491766
- Max Citation Score: 235.05537
- Similarity Product: 179.20385363960088

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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