PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259577
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "778000"]

Abstract:
A spiral conveyor for positively driving a conveyor belt along a helical path. The spiral conveyor includes a rotating cylindrical tower with parallel drive members extending from the bottom to the top of the tower on its periphery. Each drive member includes an outwardly protruding ridge that varies in height from the bottom to the top of the tower. The variations in height facilitate the belt's entry onto and exit from the tower and robust, positive driving engagement with the inside edge of the belt along the majority of its path along the tower.

Claim (Index 11):
A conveyor belt comprising:\n a series of rows of belt modules having a top side and a bottom side and hingedly linked together between consecutive rows along hinge joints defining hinge axes extending perpendicular to a conveying direction from a first side edge of the rows to an opposite second side edge of the rows, wherein the hinge joints have play in the conveying direction to allow the rows to collapse together at the first side edge when the first side edge is at the inside of a turn in a conveying path; wherein the first side edge of at least some of the rows includes a tooth projecting radially outward to a distal end and having a non-rotatable guide surface parallel to one of the hinge axes of the row and oriented to guide a top or bottom end of an external drive member into driving contact with the tooth to drive the conveyor belt in the conveying direction without slip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81818
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14386036', '13805608', '16011031', '12834314', '15224809']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7947781929882899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6051701595801
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7758173896474708
- Mean Citation Score: 465.425552
- Max Citation Score: 578.0956
- Similarity Product: 549.6463026091099

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

Dataset: test