PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15757943
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["118", "301000"]

Abstract:
An applicator for applying adhesive to a moving web has a housing with an interior chamber, an inlet and a discharge port. The inlet and discharge port are in fluid communication with the interior chamber. A rotor is disposed within the interior chamber of the housing. The rotor has a body and a nonlinear channel extending about at least a portion of the body. The nonlinear channel is selectively positionable for fluid communication with the inlet and the discharge port of the housing such that adhesive flowing into the housing through the inlet flows through and is directed by the nonlinear channel to the discharge port in the housing. The rotor is rotatable relative to the housing to change the position of the nonlinear channel relative to the discharge port and thereby change the location from which adhesive flows from the discharge port.

Claim (Index 7):
An applicator for applying adhesive to a moving web, the applicator comprising:\n a housing having an interior chamber, an inlet in fluid communication with the interior chamber, and a discharge port in fluid communication with the interior chamber; the discharge port having a plurality of cross members defining discrete openings; and a rotor disposed within the interior chamber of the housing, the rotor having a body and a nonlinear channel extending about at least a portion of the body, wherein the body of the rotor comprises a longitudinally extending passage and at least one transverse passage fluidly connecting the longitudinally extending passage to the nonlinear channel, the nonlinear channel being selectively positionable for fluid communication with the inlet and the discharge port of the housing such that adhesive flowing into the housing through the longitudinally extending passage and through the transverse passage flows through and is directed by the nonlinear channel to the discharge port in the housing, the nonlinear channel intersecting the discharge port to bring the nonlinear channel into fluid communication with the discharge port and to define an intersection which allows the adhesive to exit the discharge port at the intersection, the rotor being rotatable relative to the housing to change the position of the intersection in an axial direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54237
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12971971', '13685948', '13685844', '15198330', '14550495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7889381341973128
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4893638669511884
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7589807074727004
- Mean Citation Score: 157.41763999999995
- Max Citation Score: 175.44241
- Similarity Product: 111.313393068673

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

Dataset: test