PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16376340
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "767000"]

Abstract:
A system for recovery of animal byproducts and providing water reuse from an animal processing plant waste stream. In one embodiment of the invention there is an equalization tank forming part of an animal processing plant that is mechanically filtered to recover animal byproducts from a water mixture in the equalization tank. In another aspect of the invention there is a skimmer tank that contains a skimmer mixture with water and animal byproducts. The system mechanically separates the animal byproducts from the skimmer mixture in a manner that is suitable for human consumption. The system also allows the separated water to be reused in the animal processing plant.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for recovery of animal byproducts from an animal processing plant waste stream comprising:\n a skimmer tank containing a skimmer mixture which includes water and a layer of animal byproducts with a density less than the water thereby causing the animal byproducts to float on the surface of the skimmer mixture; a rotary screen in the skimmer tank that is connected to a main outlet of the skimmer tank, wherein the rotary screen rotates and agitates the skimmer mixture and screens out large solid particles in the skimmer mixture to create a screened skimmer mixture of water and animal byproducts that passes through the main outlet; one or more liquid liquid separators having an inlet connected to the main outlet of the skimmer tank for receiving the screened skimmer mixture, wherein the one or more liquid-liquid separators each have at least one hydrocyclone that separates the skimmer mixture creating a reuse water mixture and cyclone mixture, wherein the reuse water mixture exits through a water outlet and is recirculated back to the skimmer tank and the cyclone mixture exits a cyclone outlet; a vertical separation tank having an inlet connected to and receiving the cyclone mixture; one or more aeration inlets connected to the separation tank at locations beneath the surface of the animal byproduct mixture contained within the separation tank, wherein the one or more aeration inlets apply a steady stream of air bubbles to the animal byproduct mixture in order to promote the separation of particles of animal byproduct that are less dense than water, by promoting the particles of animal byproduct that are less dense than water to float to the surface of the water mixture contained within the vertical separation tank thereby creating a surface layer of concentrated animal byproduct mixture with water; a scraper having one or more blades located above the surface of the water mixture within the separation tank, wherein the one or more blades move parallel to the surface of the water mixture in order to push the concentrated animal byproduct mixture with water to a sludge chute; and a holding tank for receiving the concentrated animal byproduct mixture with water from the sludge chute.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13208
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10464116', '13160459', '10762017', '13750989', '12762561']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7791101419172576
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812101445352115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.749320142179053
- Mean Citation Score: 200.539388
- Max Citation Score: 233.28867
- Similarity Product: 192.828019486118

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

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