PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874732
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["221", "001000"]

Abstract:
A pellet column is formed in a metering duct. The lowermost pellet is located in a connection point where an outlet duct is connected to the metering duct and leads transversely away therefrom. A first duct, which opens into the metering duct via a first duct mouth above the connection point, is impinged with negative pressure, wherein a pellet is suctioned onto the first duct mouth and is fixed thereto. This pellet acts as a block for the pellets thereabove. A second duct, which opens into the connection point via a second duct mouth, is impinged with positive pressure, wherein the pellet at the connection point is pneumatically ejected via the outlet duct and supplied to a container. After the ejection of the lowermost pellet, the negative pressure in the first duct is switched off such that the pellet held at the first duct mouth advances toward the connection point.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for separating and transferring pellets into a target container, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing a supply of pellets in a storage space; directing the pellets from the storage space into a metering duct that leads out of the storage space downward and is vertically oriented in such a manner that a column of pellets that lie on top of one another is formed in the metering duct, wherein a lowermost pellet of the column of pellets is located in a connection point, and wherein an outlet duct is connected to the metering duct at the connection point and leads transversely away from the metering duct; impinging a first pressure differential duct, which opens into the metering duct via a first duct mouth above the connection point, with negative pressure, wherein a pellet is suctioned onto the first duct mouth and on account thereof is locationally fixed thereto, and wherein this suctioned pellet acts as a block for the pellets located thereabove; impinging a second pressure differential duct, which opens into the connection point via a second duct mouth, with positive pressure, wherein the pellet that is located in the connection point is pneumatically ejected by way of the outlet duct and supplied to the target container; and, switching off the negative pressure in the first pressure differential duct after the pneumatic ejection of the lowermost pellet such that the pellet that is locationally fixed at the first duct mouth moves on toward the connection point and a new lowermost pellet is located in the connection point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43284
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12097885', '15770421', '14071676', '14032357', '15293927']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7220107336715681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4675808627681411
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6965677465812254
- Mean Citation Score: 144.17389599999996
- Max Citation Score: 155.5399
- Similarity Product: 121.4714081177771

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