PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16092031
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["198", "617000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a heating device (H) for the thermal conditioning of preforms ( 1 ) made of a thermoplastic material at a temperature profile that is suitable for a blow molding and a blow molding machine (B) having a heating device (H) of this type. The heating device (H) has multiple heating units ( 30, 30′ ) arranged behind one another along a heating section ( 24 ) and transport means ( 33 ) for transporting the preforms ( 1 ) on a transport path ( 55 ) along the heating section ( 24 ) and along the heating units ( 30, 30′ ). The transport means ( 33 ) are connected in a chain-like manner to form a closed continuous transport chain ( 50 ) and have a rotary drive body ( 52 ) that cooperates with a first engaging device ( 51 ) that is driven and arranged such that it circulates at a distance to the transport chain ( 50 ) in order to introduce a rotational movement thereof about a longitudinal axis of the transport means ( 33 ) via engagement in the rotary drive body ( 52 ). The heating device (H) has a first heating section with first heating units ( 30 ) for the uniform heating of the preforms ( 1 ) in their peripheral direction and a second heating section with second heating units ( 30′ ) for the non-uniform heating of the preforms ( 1 ) in their peripheral direction (preferential heating). The first engaging device ( 51 ) is arranged in such a way that it is engaged with the rotary drive body ( 52 ) in the region of the first heating section and is not engaged with the rotary drive body ( 52 ) in the region of the second section. The heating device (H) has a second engaging device ( 45, 45′, 45″ ) that can be driven and is arranged such that it circulates at a distance to the transport chain ( 50 ), said second engaging device being arranged in such a way that it is engaged with the rotary drive body ( 52 ) in the region of the second heating section and also has the translation speed of the transport chain ( 50 ). Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for the thermal conditioning of preforms.

Claim (Index 16):
A heating device for thermally conditioning preforms made of a thermoplastic material for blow molding, the heating device comprising:\n a plurality of heating units arranged one behind another along a heating section; and transport means for transporting the preforms on a transport path along the heating section and along the heating units; wherein the transport means are connected to form a closed continuous transport chain and have a rotary drive body that cooperates with a first engaging device that is driven and arranged such that it circulates at a distance relative to the transport chain in order to introduce a rotational movement thereof about a longitudinal axis of the transport means via engagement in the rotary drive body, wherein the heating section comprises a first heating section portion provided with a first portion of the plurality of healing units for uniformly heating the preforms in a peripheral direction of the preforms, and a second heating section portion provided with a second portion of the plurality of heating units for non-uniformly heating the preforms in the peripheral direction, wherein the first engaging device is arranged in such a way that it is engaged with the rotary drive body in a region of the first heating section portion and is not engaged with the rotary drive body in a region of the second heating section portion, and wherein the heating device has a second engaging device that is configured to be driven and is arranged to circulate at a distance relative to the transport chain, said second engaging device being arranged in such a way that it is engaged with the rotary drive body in the region of the second heating section portion and also has a translation speed of the transport chain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.74336
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15657723', '15051779', '14914172', '11886381', '13857870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7445260056797517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.499110655155986
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7199844706273751
- Mean Citation Score: 273.365542
- Max Citation Score: 339.13855
- Similarity Product: 277.49738977778554

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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