PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "610000"]

Abstract:
In a walking floor conveyor, an arrangement of panels lined longitudinally in a side-by-side fashion are organized into at least two correlating groups of panels. At least two panels within each group. Each panel grouping is propelled and retracted in a reciprocating manner, each by a hydraulic cylinder. The panels comprising wheel receptacles underneath the panels and at least one wheel fitted within a wheel receptacle to allow for forward and backward movement along a wheel support beam. These reciprocating panels supported by a series of wheel support beams, interior support beams and side support beams. These side support beams are at their tallest in the back and shortest in the front to provide a slant allowing for a flow of cargo and liquid runoff captured within a plurality of panel drains located between the panels towards a frontally placed auger designed for the assistance of cargo discharge.

Claim (Index 9):
A reciprocating slat conveyor system, the system comprising:\n a plurality of parallel reciprocating slats, at least two groups of slats, of at least two slats per group, arranged in an alternating group manner having a top and bottom side; the top side of each of the plurality of slats having a horizontal top surface; the bottom side of each of the plurality of slats having at least one wheel receptacle;\n wherein the at least one wheel receptacle may comprise a wheel that rests on top of a horizontal flat surface; \n wherein, each of the at least two slats per group are connected underneath by a group panel connector and two or more group panel connectors assigned to the same group are connected by an arm link which connects to a group specific hydraulic cylinder which controls the movement of the two or more group panel connectors assigned to the same group; \n wherein the group specific hydraulic cylinder pushes and retracts an attached piston rod forward and backwards which results in corresponding wheel movement of the at least one wheel maintained above the at least one set of support beams to reciprocate one of the at least two groups of slats forward and backwards.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78409
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15816310', '11735485', '11335010', '10715780', '10759399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.686610035766615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5804108274176467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6759901149317181
- Mean Citation Score: 285.72596
- Max Citation Score: 511.98877000000016
- Similarity Product: 474.398713155464

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

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