PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749793
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "795600"]

Abstract:
The invention provides an apparatus for separating a cone sleeve ( 4 ) from a nested stack of cone sleeves ( 1 ) the apparatus comprising a chamber ( 2 ) having an upper ( 7 ) and a lower ( 8 ) surface connected by a wall or walls ( 6 ), the upper surface ( 7 ) having an upper circular opening ( 3 ) and the lower surface ( 8 ) having a lower circular opening ( 5 ) characterized in that the upper circular opening ( 3 ) has a circumference of from 100-135% of the maximum circumference of the cone sleeve ( 4 ), the lower circular opening ( 5 ) has a circumference of from 95-99.5% of the maximum circumference of the cone sleeve ( 4 ), and the chamber ( 2 ) has inlets ( 9 ) connectable to a pressurized gas supply. The invention also provides process that employs the apparatus, the process comprising the steps of providing a stack of nested cone sleeves ( 1 ); placing the lowermost end of the stack into the chamber ( 2 ) from above the chamber ( 2 ); and allowing the lowermost cone sleeve ( 4 ) to sit within the lower circular opening ( 5 ) and allowing the cone sleeves above the lower-most cone sleeve ( 4 ) to protrude from the top of the chamber ( 2 ) characterized in that pressurized gas is introduced into the chamber via the inlets ( 9 ) thereby to create an elevated pressure within the chamber ( 2 ).

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for separating a cone sleeve ( 4 ) from a nested stack of cone sleeves ( 1 ) the apparatus comprising a chamber ( 2 ) having an upper ( 7 ) and a lower ( 8 ) surface connected by a wall or walls ( 6 ), the upper surface ( 7 ) having an upper circular opening ( 3 ) and the lower surface ( 8 ) having a lower circular opening ( 5 ) characterised in that\n the upper circular opening ( 3 ) has a circumference of from 100-135% of the maximum circumference of the cone sleeve ( 4 ), the lower circular opening ( 5 ) has a circumference of from 95-99.5% of the maximum circumference of the cone sleeve ( 4 ), and the chamber ( 2 ) has inlets ( 9 ) connectable to a pressurized gas supply.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.36585
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11268231', '10030287', '10611721', '13951144', '13966884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8361643420823314
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4905995961709253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8016078674911907
- Mean Citation Score: 147.321124
- Max Citation Score: 166.19064
- Similarity Product: 94.87208873479842

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

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