PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16409599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["425", "378200"]

Abstract:
A system for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that is adapted for providing a polymer melt and dividing the polymer melt into a plurality of streams (e.g., at least six or eight streams) to increase a surface area of the polymer melt. The plurality of streams is then exposed to a pressure that is below approximately 5 millibars. The streams are then recombined into a single polymer stream and formed into bulked continuous carpet filament. In various embodiments, an extruder, such as a multi-screw extruder, is used to divide the polymer melt into the plurality of streams.

Claim (Index 21):
A system for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament, the system comprising:\n an extruder adapted to receive a plurality of polymer flakes and melt the plurality of polymer flakes to create a polymer melt; a chamber adapted to receive the polymer melt from the extruder and separate the polymer melt into at least eight streams at an entry portion of the chamber and to recombine the at least eight streams into a single polymer stream at an exit portion of the chamber; a pressure regulation system adapted to reduce a chamber pressure within the chamber to between about 0 millibars and about 5 millibars; and a spinning machine adapted to receive the single polymer stream from the chamber and to form the single polymer stream into bulked continuous carpet filament.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81356
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16220733', '16402583', '15204645', '15419955', '16041442']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8090924272434271
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6512273557523846
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7933059200943229
- Mean Citation Score: 489.51269400000007
- Max Citation Score: 537.9277
- Similarity Product: 502.77531323894266

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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