PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "801000"]

Abstract:
A feedwell comprising a plurality of holes disposed in a bottom thereof, at least some of the holes having a tube disposed thereabout which extends downward or otherwise away from an interior of the feedwell. Optionally, a large center hole can be provided and it can have a tube disposed around it. By providing a plurality of holes spread across a large portion of the bottom of the feedwell, lower velocity flow rates from the feedwell to a sedimentation chamber can be provided, thus reducing induced turbulence in the fluid within the sedimentation chamber, while still providing sufficient separation of the feedwell from the sedimentation chamber so that the contents of the feedwell can be properly and adequately mixed.

Claim (Index 8):
A feedwell comprising:\n a sidewall; a bottom; a first opening in said bottom of said feedwell; a plurality of second openings in said bottom of said feedwell; each of said plurality of second openings comprising a cross-sectional area which is less than one-half of a cross-sectional area of said first opening; and at least some of said second openings comprising a corresponding tube disposed around said openings which projects downward and away from an interior of said feedwell, said tube radially consistent in pattern or design.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86765
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15074410', '13878699', '12085285', '12992869', '13858285']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7525766216354951
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5354036119239177
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7308593206643375
- Mean Citation Score: 243.106532
- Max Citation Score: 368.18085
- Similarity Product: 346.48064620771413

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

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