PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139212
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["053", "398000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for coupling one or more can carriers to a plurality of cans is disclosed herein. The apparatus may include rails for guiding the cans as the cans move through the apparatus. Push members may be moved into the space between the rails to push the cans through the apparatus towards a member and at least one roller. The member (e.g., a hopper) may position a can carrier above the cans. The at least one roller may be positioned to provide a downward force on the can carrier to attach the can carrier to the top of the cans as the cans are moved past the at least one roller by the push members.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for coupling one or more can carriers to a plurality of cans, comprising:\n moving a plurality of cans along a path between a pair of rails; stopping the cans using a pair of stop members moved into a space between the pair of rails; after a selected number of cans are stopped against the stop members, moving a pair of push members into the space between the pair of rails behind the selected number of cans along the path between the rails; removing the stop members from the space between the pair of rails; moving the push members along the path between the rails to push the selected number of cans along the path between the rails; positioning a can carrier above the cans with a member; and attaching the can carrier to tops of the selected number of cans, wherein the can carrier is attached to the selected number of cans using a downward force on the can carrier provided by at least one roller as the cans are pushed past the member along the path between the rails.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08475
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16139223', '13415668', '11126150', '11300371', '10838831']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7172030826820317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.536120112630131
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6990947856768416
- Mean Citation Score: 196.924098
- Max Citation Score: 393.46265
- Similarity Product: 309.5606402700335

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

Dataset: test