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 26):
The heating device as claimed in  claim 16 , wherein the transport chain is led by means of spaced apart deflecting wheels to form curved circulating sections in an area of the deflecting wheels, wherein the transport chain forms linear circulating sections in areas lying in between the spaced apart deflecting wheels, and wherein the heating units are arranged in the linear circulating sections.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.74336
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15657723', '15051779', '14914172', '11886381', '13857870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7666769441218365
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5060195668893487
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7406112063985877
- Mean Citation Score: 273.365542
- Max Citation Score: 339.13855
- Similarity Product: 216.0766051215828

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

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