PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748319
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["118", "062000"]

Abstract:
A metering device is disclosed for regulating the depth of flowable product coating a surface movable relative to the metering device by directing an air curtain towards the surface. The metering device comprises a body ( 10 ) having an interior chamber ( 12 ), an inlet for connecting the chamber to a source of gas under super-ambient pressure; and an opening ( 16 ) communicating with the chamber and having a mouth through which gas is discharged from the chamber towards the surface to form the air curtain. A porous or reticulated membrane ( 18 ) is secured to, or formed integrally with, the body of the device to lie in the path of the gas discharged through the mouth of the opening.

Claim (Index 5):
A product metering device as claimed in  claim 4 , wherein the air curtain flows substantially without turbulence in a gap between the metering device and the surface in order to achieve an even depth of product coating on the surface on the downstream side of the device, variations in coating depth being optionally less than 10%, or less than 5%, or less than 2% or less than 1% of the average depth of the coating.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98485
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09548984', '10556363', '12901119', '14185706', '10866071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7852143314348434
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4979274422081627
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7564856425121753
- Mean Citation Score: 119.940527
- Max Citation Score: 122.84837
- Similarity Product: 67.10961081120135

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