PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["242", "541300"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method where rolling a length of compressed flexible material into a roll use a flexible roll-up belt moving along a belt pathway, said pathway defined by a number of rollers, wherein at least one of said rollers is active where its rotation is driven by a drive motor and drives the belt along said belt pathway, the roll-up belt can be tightened or loosened along said belt pathway by changing the position of at least one moveable roller and thereby changing the length of the pathway, wherein said method comprises feeding said compressed flexible material into a meeting loop cavity shaped by a segment of said roll-up belt along said roll-up belt pathway, whereby material follows the inner surface of the loop and the rolling of the flexible material is initiated, gradually increasing the length of the segment of said roll-up belt in said meeting loop cavity to ensure that that the roll-up belt segment in said meeting loop cavity gradually and continuously follows the increasing size of the roll and supports the outer contour of the roll, wherein said gradual increase of the segment comprises the steps of gradually loosening the roll-up belt by changing the position of said at least one moveable roller and simultaneously controlling the rotation speed of said at least one active roller to control the length of said belt segment in said meeting loop cavity. Thereby, an automatic rolling of flexible material is obtained, which adaptably expands a meeting loop cavity to ensure that the rolling is initiated in a controlled manner, and furthermore, that one apparatus performing the method according to the present invention may be used to roll flexible material of various dimensions and characteristics.

Claim (Index 3):
A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the compression ( 41 ) of said flexible material is obtained by moving the flexible material ( 4 ) between an upper feed belt ( 3 ) and a lower feed belt ( 2 ), and wherein the feed belts are inclined relative to each other, whereby the distance between their transport surfaces decreases in their transport direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.9901
- Patent Class: 242.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10654255', '11279347', '13650552', '12678436', '11426409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7552099090218392
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966880577429667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7293577238939519
- Mean Citation Score: 160.21703599999995
- Max Citation Score: 204.16484
- Similarity Product: 118.96342344294072

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

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