PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917141
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["366", "342000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to apparatus and method of making a frozen confectionary product such as ice cream or sorbet in which a confectionary mix is churned in a vessel whilst a liquid gas such as liquid nitrogen is added. Existing churning apparatus moves a stirrer through the ice cream mix in an epicyclical motion. This tends to splash liquid nitrogen so that it evaporates without contributing to the freezing of the ice cream. In the improved mixing method, the stirrer is repeatedly drawn against the inside wall(s) of the vessel. This reduces splashing of the liquid nitrogen. The drawing action also removes build up of frozen confectionary product on both the stirrer and the vessel walls and allows unfrozen confectionary mix to move to the edges of the vessel and be preferentially frozen.

Claim (Index 6):
Apparatus for making a frozen confectionary product comprising:\n an agitator driven to agitate a confectionary mix within a vessel, the agitator configured to mix the confectionary mix with a cyclic motion according to  claim 1  and to rotate the vessel with respect to the agitator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81013
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12804032', '10997262', '15627057', '11669768', '15352245']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8109522020325095
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4855110973392863
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7784080915631872
- Mean Citation Score: 189.22896
- Max Citation Score: 240.09283
- Similarity Product: 153.83982210282983

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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