PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744461
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["162", "004000"]

Abstract:
A method ( 10 ) for cleaning fibers from a contaminated article is disclosed. The method ( 10 ) can include pulping ( 20 ) a contaminated article to separate the fibers or filaments from the contaminated article in a first solution to provide dissociated pulped fibers. The method ( 10 ) can also include washing ( 26 ) the dissociated pulped fibers by forming a suspension comprising the dissociated pulped fibers from the contaminated article and a detergent, applying a magnetic field to the suspension, and mixing the suspension to wash the dissociated pulped fibers while applying the magnetic field to the suspension thereby forming washed pulped fibers. Contaminates can be removed from the suspension while washing ( 26 ) the dissociated pulped fibers. The washed pulped fibers can be rinsed and dried to provide clean fibers.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for cleaning fibers from a contaminated article, the method comprising:\n providing a contaminated article comprising contaminates and at least one of fibers and filaments, the contaminates comprising at least one of oils, greases, solvents, and lubricants; pre-sorting and pre-washing the contaminated article in a pre-washing solution; pulping the contaminated article in a first solution to separate the at least one of fibers and filaments from the contaminated article to provide dissociated pulped fibers; the first solution being heated; applying a magnetic field to the first solution while pulping the contaminated article to provide dissociated pulped fibers; filtering the dissociated pulped fibers from the first solution after pulping the contaminated article; rinsing the dissociated pulped fibers after filtering the pulped fibers from the first solution; forming a suspension comprising the dissociated pulped fibers from the contaminated article and a detergent in a second solution; applying a magnetic field to the second solution; mixing the suspension to wash the dissociated pulped fibers while applying the magnetic field to the suspension thereby forming washed pulped fibers; skimming the surface of the suspension to remove contaminates; rinsing the washed pulped fibers after removing the washed pulped fibers from the suspension to provide rinsed pulped fibers; treating the rinsed pulped fibers with a pH adjustment solution to provide treated pulped fibers, the pH adjustment solution being heated; neutralizing and rinsing the treated pulped fibers to provide further rinsed pulped fibers; and drying the further rinsed pulped fibers to provide clean fibers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63636
- Patent Class: 162.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13548620', '15622098', '14992163', '15226939', '15751338']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.697073244557858
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4775479330824463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6751207134103169
- Mean Citation Score: 187.647506
- Max Citation Score: 193.34929
- Similarity Product: 131.68134116846144

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