PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864175
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["008", "158000"]

Abstract:
A method of washing fabric articles in a tunnel washer that includes moving the fabric articles from the intake of the washer to the discharge of the washer and through multiple modules or sectors. Liquid can be counter flowed in the washer interior along a flow path that is generally opposite the direction of travel of the fabric articles. A dual use zone includes multiple of the modules or sectors. In a dual use zone, a module or modules can be used to both wash and thereafter rinse the fabric articles. While counterflow rinsing, the flow rate can be maintained at a selected flow rate or flow pressure head. One or more booster pumps can optionally be employed to maintain constant counterflow rinsing flow rate or constant counterflow rinsing pressure head. During rinsing, extracted water or reuse water is first used to rinse followed by a clean water rinse.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of washing fabric articles in a continuous batch tunnel washer, comprising the steps of:\n a) providing a continuous batch tunnel washer having an interior, an intake, a discharge, and a plurality of modules that segment the interior, wherein multiple of the modules are dual use modules that define a dual use zone having modules that each function as both wash and rinse modules; b) moving the fabric articles from the intake to the discharge; c) adding a washing chemical to the dual use zone wherein the dual use modules in the dual use zone wash the fabric articles with a combination of water and said washing chemical; d) after a selected time interval and after step \u201cc\u201d, counter flowing liquid in the washer interior along a flow path that is generally opposite the direction of travel of the fabric articles in step \u201cb\u201d; e) extracting water from the fabric articles after step \u201cd\u201d; f) transmitting the extracted water of step \u201ce\u201d to a reuse water tank; and g) said rinse includes: 1) counter flowing water through the dual use modules to effect a rinse of the fabric articles, wherein a first volume of water is from the reuse tank followed by 2) a second volume of water from a clean water tank.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12
- Patent Class: 8.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13152511', '14873781', '15440912', '12765500', '13971336']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8482469850055954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5661043694168556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8200327234467214
- Mean Citation Score: 392.334512
- Max Citation Score: 446.34064000000006
- Similarity Product: 426.57753109967246

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

Dataset: test