PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "610000"]

Abstract:
In a walking floor conveyor, an arrangement of panels lined longitudinally in a side-by-side fashion are organized into at least two correlating groups of panels. At least two panels within each group. Each panel grouping is propelled and retracted in a reciprocating manner, each by a hydraulic cylinder. The panels comprising wheel receptacles underneath the panels and at least one wheel fitted within a wheel receptacle to allow for forward and backward movement along a wheel support beam. These reciprocating panels supported by a series of wheel support beams, interior support beams and side support beams. These side support beams are at their tallest in the back and shortest in the front to provide a slant allowing for a flow of cargo and liquid runoff captured within a plurality of panel drains located between the panels towards a frontally placed auger designed for the assistance of cargo discharge.

Claim (Index 15):
A reciprocating slat conveyor system, the system comprising:\n a plurality of parallel reciprocating slats, at least three groups of slats, of at least three slats per group, arranged in an alternating group manner having a top and bottom side; the top side of each of the plurality of slats having a horizontal top surface; the bottom side of each of the plurality of slats having a horizontal bottom surface and at least two perpendicular vertical panels affixed equidistance from the center on opposite sides to the horizontal bottom surface extending substantially the entire length of one of the plurality of parallel reciprocating slats;\n wherein the at least two perpendicular vertical panels affixed to the horizontal bottom surface of the plurality of slats may comprise at least one wheel fitted between the at least two perpendicular vertical panels that rests on top of at least one set of support beams aligned perpendicular to the plurality of parallel reciprocating slats; \n wherein, each of the at least three slats per group are connected underneath by a group panel connector and two or more group panel connectors assigned to the same group are connected by an arm link which connects to a group specific hydraulic cylinder which controls the movement of the two or more group panel connectors assigned to the same group; \n wherein the group specific hydraulic cylinder pushes and retracts an attached piston rod forward and backwards which results in corresponding wheel movement of the at least one wheel maintained above the at least one set of support beams to reciprocate one of the at least three groups of slats forward and backwards.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78409
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15816310', '11735485', '11335010', '10715780', '10759399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6857413969527788
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5827771049554494
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.675444967753046
- Mean Citation Score: 285.72596
- Max Citation Score: 511.98877000000016
- Similarity Product: 485.8359622899855

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

Dataset: test