PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16033336
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["086", "050000"]

Abstract:
Detonable devices such as charged air bag inflators are fed to a shred tower at a controlled feed rate via a feed valve. Water spray and/or water baths in the shred tower prevent sparking and begin to solubilize chemicals while the inflators are fed to primary and optional secondary shredders respectively performing course and fine shreds. A sump receives the shredded material which continues to solubilize and separate chemicals from metal. A conveyor lifts solids from the sump. Dewatered solids are fed to a receiving box for metal scrap recycling.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for rendering inert and separating components of detonable devices fabricated from metal and water soluble chemical explosive propellants, for recycling, the apparatus comprising:\n a feeder configured to receive material including a plurality of the detonable devices; a shred tower configured to convey the material in a downstream direction therethrough, the shred tower including a hopper, at least one shredder disposed within and/or downstream of the hopper, and a water sump disposed downstream of the at least one shredder; a first conveyor operatively engaged with the feeder and the shred tower, the first conveyor configured to feed the material from the feeder to an upstream portion of the hopper at a controlled feed rate; a feed valve disposed at the upstream portion of the hopper, the feed valve being selectively actuatable between open and closed positions to respectively permit and prevent the material from entering the upstream portion of the hopper; a irrigation means to substantially prevent sparking and to begin to solubilize and separate chemicals from the metal during operation of the at least one shredder; the water sump configured to receive the material from the at least one shredder to continue to solubilize and separate the chemicals from the metal; a second conveyor configured to lift solids including shreds of the metal from the sump, wherein residual water runs from the solids back to the sump to produce dewatered solids; and the second conveyor configured to feed the dewatered solids to a receiving box for metal scrap recycling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50794
- Patent Class: 86.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13424363', '12939052', '13065154', '13818069', '13848700']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5837152509484869
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4792725755532806
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5732709834089662
- Mean Citation Score: 155.36800399999996
- Max Citation Score: 161.78506000000004
- Similarity Product: 113.43385906904344

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