PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767952
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["156", "358000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus ( 1 ) for labelling a package ( 2 ) including an advancing device ( 3 ), a dispensing device ( 4 ), an application device ( 6 ) and a control device ( 7 ). The application device includes a punch ( 10 ) having a punch shank ( 8 ) with a second shank end ( 8 b ) to which a punch foot ( 9 ) for moving a dispensed label ( 5 ) from at least one receiving position (A, A′) to at least one delivery position (B) is connected, and a plurality of motors ( 11, 12, 13, 14 ) controlled by the control device, each of which is configured to move the punch shank in a direction parallel to one of at least three different directions (X, Y, Z, C). The motors are mounted such that during simultaneous movement of the punch shank by the motors, none of the motors change position relative to another of the motors. A method for labelling a package is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for labelling a package, the apparatus comprising:\n an advancing device for transporting the package in a transport direction, a dispensing device for dispensing labels in a dispensing direction, an application device for applying a dispensed label from the dispensing device on the package, and a control device for controlling the application device, wherein: the application device comprises a punch, wherein the punch comprises a punch shank and a punch foot, for moving the dispensed label from at least one receiving position, where the dispensed label is picked up by the punch foot, to at least one delivery position where the dispensed label is applyable on the package by the punch foot, the punch shank extends in an extension direction from a first shank end to a second shank end, said punch foot being connected to the second shank end of the punch shank, the punch shank is mounted in the application device such that the punch shank is capable of movements in at least three different movement directions, the application device comprises a plurality of motors controlled by the control device, wherein each of said motors is configured to move the punch shank in one of the at least three different movement directions, the control device is configured such that the punch shank is simultaneously movable in the at least three of the movement directions by the plurality of motors, the motors are mounted in the application device such that during simultaneous movement of the punch shank in the at least three directions, none of plurality of motors simultaneously moving the punch shank changes position relative to any other of the plurality of motors simultaneously moving the punch shank, and a first of the plurality of motors brings about a translational movement of the punch shank in a first movement direction that is orthogonal to the extension direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1413
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10030419', '13508928', '12729110', '14235204', '14235222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.884087164037627
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4917687669695517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8448553243308194
- Mean Citation Score: 156.14394599999997
- Max Citation Score: 159.38196000000005
- Similarity Product: 96.5619754826546

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

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