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 13):
The cup dispensing apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the actuating device is operable to cause the at least three releasing elements to perform a working cycle including a forward stroke, during which the at least three releasing elements move from the respective rest positions thereof to the respective release positions thereof, and a return stroke, during which the at least three releasing elements return to the respective rest positions thereof.

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): 0.7528442191472121
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4817285129966669
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7257326485321576
- Mean Citation Score: 169.541434
- Max Citation Score: 186.05067
- Similarity Product: 142.6735319490552

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

Dataset: test