PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749387
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["221", "221000"]

Abstract:
A cup dispensing apparatus comprising at least one magazine adapted to accommodate a stack of cups, and a releasing device, which has a vertical channel designed to be engaged by the stack, is configured to support the stack and release, when operated, the last cup, and is equipped with at least three releasing elements movable on a horizontal plane in respective directions substantially tangential to said channel, between a rest position, in which they define a horizontal first support plane designed to be engaged by the last cup to support the stack, and a release position, in which they define a second support plane at a higher level than the first support plane and designed to be engaged by the penultimate cup to support the rest of the stack; each releasing device has an associated separating device adapted to impart a downward detaching thrust on the last cup when the respective releasing element reaches the release position.

Claim (Index 15):
The cup dispensing apparatus of  claim 14 , wherein each of the three separating devices includes:\n a thin flat element, which is movable, as a consequence of the movement of the respective one of the at least three releasing elements during the forward stroke, from an inoperative position, in which the thin flat element is on an outside of the channel, to an intermediate position, in which the thin flat element protrudes inside the channel and is inserted between the penultimate and a last cup of the stack of cups, and from the intermediate position to an operative position to impart a downward thrust on the last cup so as to cause the last cup to separate from the rest of the stack of cups; and elastic means are provided between each of the three separating devices and the respective one of the at least three releasing elements to bring the separating device back to the inoperative position from the operative position during the return stroke of the releasing element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31507
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14121936', '16080778', '14121782', '13999532', '13507808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7529471873147776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.481189694447274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7257714380280272
- Mean Citation Score: 169.541434
- Max Citation Score: 186.05067
- Similarity Product: 143.36879824391127

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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