PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058201
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "002000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for franking flat items of mail removed individually or at the underside of a supplied stack and guided in a transport direction at one side edge, includes a separating station formed from a feeder for items of mail separating device, and a downstream processing line of a franking machine, following in a conveying manner in the transport direction, for franking/printing the individual items of mail. The processing line in the transport region between feeder and the separating device of the separating station assigned to the latter includes a plurality of driven transport rollers which form a transport plane for receiving an item of mail or the respective lowest item of mail from a stack, which rollers are mounted in a frame in the transport direction of the items of mail transversely and beside one another and in the same direction and at the same peripheral speed.

Claim (Index 10):
The apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein the support roller is mounted in the frame so as to be freely rotatable about an axis arranged transversely with respect to the transport direction of the items of mail or is driven in a conveying manner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24638
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16058438', '14993770', '14099117', '14097760', '12256820']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7637220714952355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4967592922767551
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7370257935733875
- Mean Citation Score: 205.505238
- Max Citation Score: 249.35487
- Similarity Product: 158.6260310537803

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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