PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038951
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["422", "026000"]

Abstract:
A sterilizing apparatus, in particular for sterilizing post-consumer absorbent sanitary products, comprising: a container rotatable about a horizontal axis and having a hollow wall including an inner wall, an outer wall, and a gap defined between the inner wall and the outer wall, a rotary joint coaxial to said horizontal axis and having a steam inlet chamber and a condensate discharge chamber, wherein the steam inlet chamber and the condensate discharge chamber of said rotary joint are in communication with respective zones of said gap via a steam supply tube and a condensate collection tube.

Claim (Index 1):
A sterilizing apparatus, in particular for sterilizing post-consumer absorbent sanitary products, comprising:\n a main container rotatable about a horizontal axis, and having a hollow wall including an inner wall, an outer wall, and a gap defined between the inner wall and the outer wall, a rotary joint coaxial to said horizontal axis and having a steam inlet chamber and a condensate discharge chamber, wherein the steam inlet chamber and the condensate discharge chamber of said rotary joint are in communication with respective zones of said gap via a steam supply tube and a condensate collection tube, wherein the condensate collection tube has a condensate inlet end attached to the outer wall of the container ( 26 ) and communicating with the gap: a condensate collection container fixed to the main container inside said gap, wherein the condensate collection container extends from a first end closed around said condensate inlet end of said condensate collection tube to a second end provided with a lip facing a cylindrical portion of said outer wall, wherein the condensate in the gap can enter into the condensate collection container through said lip when the condensate collection container reaches the lowest position during rotation of the main container, and the shape of said condensate collection container from said first end to said second end allows the condensate to remain within the condensate collection container during rotation of the main container and then to fall off by gravity into the condensate inlet end of the condensate collection tube when the condensate collection container reaches its highest position during rotation of the container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9434
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14414634', '12075042', '10051901', '09609881', '11908884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7656680591876011
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4512661470316479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7342278679720058
- Mean Citation Score: 118.41592
- Max Citation Score: 120.64713
- Similarity Product: 86.65462571647345

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

Dataset: test