PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["202", "105000"]

Abstract:
A shear retort mill for slow ablative pyrolysis features friction heating between shearing surfaces on a rotating disk and a static or rotating cylindrical drum enclosing the disk. A feed enters the workspace between the rotating disk and the bottom of the drum through a hollow feed shaft coupled to the rotating disk. Preferably, an auger compacts and moves the feed downward, and a shredder reduces the feed's particle size. The feed is increasingly ground and pyrolyzed as it is forced between the drum and disk shearing surface. As the dense processed material extrudes at the edge of the workspace, the gases and liquid products are forced inward by the barrier of dense solids. A static exhaust pipe at the center of the rotating feed shaft allows for the exit of these gases, which preferably go to a heat exchanger to recover any condensable fractions.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 3 , wherein said braking mechanism comprises a brake shoe contacting the surface of the drum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7931
- Patent Class: 202.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13016328', '14459153', '14333276', '15664855', '13364247']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6550370455762878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5374031147673208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6432736524953911
- Mean Citation Score: 183.140508
- Max Citation Score: 204.6599
- Similarity Product: 108.70529766777751

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

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