PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058201
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "002000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for franking flat items of mail removed individually or at the underside of a supplied stack and guided in a transport direction at one side edge, includes a separating station formed from a feeder for items of mail separating device, and a downstream processing line of a franking machine, following in a conveying manner in the transport direction, for franking/printing the individual items of mail. The processing line in the transport region between feeder and the separating device of the separating station assigned to the latter includes a plurality of driven transport rollers which form a transport plane for receiving an item of mail or the respective lowest item of mail from a stack, which rollers are mounted in a frame in the transport direction of the items of mail transversely and beside one another and in the same direction and at the same peripheral speed.

Claim (Index 13):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a front end of the feeder in the transport direction of the items of mail is formed by a guide/feeder wall which is inclined rearward and has an upstream lower end that forms with the transport plane a passage opening extending at least partly over a width of the transport plane for removal of the items of mail.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24638
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16058438', '14993770', '14099117', '14097760', '12256820']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7655699451231233
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4851668197962354
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7375296325904345
- Mean Citation Score: 205.505238
- Max Citation Score: 249.35487
- Similarity Product: 188.99654895004392

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

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