PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16084342
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["053", "232000"]

Abstract:
A folding unit for producing packages ( 2 ) from sealed packs ( 3 ) comprises an endless conveyor ( 23 ) carrying a plurality of paddles ( 30 ) arranged for moving said packs ( 3 ) along an advancement direction and fold said packs ( 3 ) into formed packages ( 2 ), each paddle ( 30 ) having a first surface ( 80 ) intended to interact with a first pack ( 3 ) to form a portion of a corresponding first package ( 2 ) and a second surface ( 81 ) intended to interact with a second pack ( 3 ) to form a portion of a corresponding second package ( 2 ), said folding unit further comprises releasable connecting elements ( 42 ) arranged for releasably connecting said paddles ( 30 ) to said endless conveyor ( 23 ).

Claim (Index 20):
A folding unit according to  claim 14 , and further comprising:\n a first lateral pressing arrangement; and a second lateral pressing arrangement configured to press flaps of the first pack onto lateral walls of the first pack, the first lateral pressing arrangement and the second lateral pressing arrangement located on opposite sides of the conveyor, the first lateral pressing arrangement comprising a first belt and the second lateral pressing arrangement comprising a second belt, the first belt and the second belt having a plurality of bulges extending from an outer surface of the first belt and the second belt and configured to form the lateral walls.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50847
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14127503', '15128555', '14127586', '15327542', '14127505']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7779443384728368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5144301778195374
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7515929224075069
- Mean Citation Score: 311.099482
- Max Citation Score: 327.6733
- Similarity Product: 229.0551016218245

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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