PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975457
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["083", "354000"]

Abstract:
There is disclosed a cutting mechanism for severing elongate fibre reinforcement material in composite material lay-up equipment, the cutting mechanism comprising a cutting element and a counteracting element which cooperate to sever fibre reinforcement material extending through the nip between them, the cutting element being mounted on an elongate arm which is pivotable about a pivot axis A spaced from the nip, to displace the cutting element relatively to the counteracting element to perform a cutting stroke, the mechanism further comprising guide means arranged to guide the fibre reinforcement material through the nip in a feed direction transverse to the pivot axis A, and an actuation device for driving the elongate arm in a cutting stroke, the actuation device acting on the elongate arm at a position away from the cutting element. There is also provided composite material lay-up equipment comprising the cutting mechanism.

Claim (Index 6):
A cutting mechanism according to  claim 1 , wherein the cutting element is one of a plurality of cutting elements disposed in an array, each cutting element cooperating with the counteracting element or with one of a plurality of counteracting elements to sever a respective length of fibre reinforcement material extending through a respective nip between the cutting element and the respective counteracting element, each cutting element being mounted on one of a corresponding plurality of elongate arms which is pivotable about a pivot axis spaced from the nip, to displace the cutting element relatively to the respective counteracting element to perform a cutting stroke; and\n wherein there is a plurality of actuation devices for driving the elongate arms in respective cutting strokes, each of the actuation devices acting on the elongate arms at positions away from the respective cutting elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 83.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13839511', '14733480', '14734638', '13839531', '15462290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.819077134194144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5677877813095006
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7939481989056796
- Mean Citation Score: 379.704578
- Max Citation Score: 452.41003
- Similarity Product: 430.64387861973887

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

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