PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947952
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "792600"]

Abstract:
A case manipulator receives cases from an infeed conveyer and manipulates individual cases or groups of cases and transfers the manipulated cases to a row accumulator platform in a desired and pre-determined orientation and positioned on the accumulator platform to a desired and pre-determined location. The manipulation of individual cases, or groups of cases, is continued in a sequential operation until a complete row is formed on the accumulator platform according to a pre-determined build menu. The case manipulator includes a swing plate pivotal on a first axis and a paddle arm that is attached to the swing plate and pivotal on a second axis that is transverse to the first axis. The invention allows the palletizer to have the next case in a row transferred from the infeed conveyer to the row-build staging area while the case manipulator is operating on an already-delivered case.

Claim (Index 1):
An item row building apparatus for arranging items into rows, each item having a trailing edge and a leading edge, comprising:\n an infeed conveyer for delivering items at a first level and in a first orientation; a row accumulator having a row build surface and the row accumulator defining a longitudinal axis; a item manipulator adapted for receiving a item from the infeed conveyer and for positioning the item on the row accumulator, the item manipulator comprising:\n a carriage mounted on a track and adapted for reciprocating movement along the longitudinal axis; \n a first plate mounted to the carriage and reciprocally movable along the track on the longitudinal axis; \n a item turner pivotally mounted for movement of the item turner about an item turner axis between a first position in which the item turner is separated from the row accumulator and a second position in which the item turner extends over the row accumulator, wherein when the item turner moves from the first position to the second position a item received by the item manipulator is moved from the first orientation to a second orientation; and \n a trailing edge detector for determining the position of a trailing edge of a item.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22059
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15261751', '15609101', '15890485', '13924575', '13549872']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8471428031348794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6075567263108056
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8231841954524721
- Mean Citation Score: 389.743178
- Max Citation Score: 588.2203
- Similarity Product: 482.2723436230837

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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