PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["118", "309000"]

Abstract:
A particulate duster system includes a duster used to apply particulate matter to a food product moving along a conveyor positioned beneath the duster. The duster is used to uniformly dispense particulate matter onto a moving product conveyor for carrying a food product to be dusted.

Claim (Index 15):
An apparatus for applying particulate matter to a substrate comprising:\n an inlet opening configured to receive the particulate matter; a horizontally oriented particulate auger assembly having a horizontal auger housing provided with a horizontally oriented auger, wherein the horizontally oriented auger includes a first horizontally oriented auger half and a second horizontally oriented auger half, wherein the first horizontally oriented auger half includes a first helical flight that conveys the particulate matter in a first direction and the second horizontally oriented auger half includes a second helical flight that coveys the particulate matter in a second direction, the horizontally oriented auger adapted to convey the particulate matter received from the inlet opening at a center portion of the horizontally oriented particulate auger assembly outwardly along at least a portion of a length of the horizontal auger housing and deposit the particulate matter beneath the horizontal auger housing, the horizontal auger housing including a curved bottom wall formed to include a plurality of apertures adapted to permit the particulate matter conveyed by the horizontally oriented auger to exit below the horizontal auger housing; a particulate applicator assembly positioned beneath the horizontally oriented particulate auger assembly, the particulate applicator assembly having an applicator housing that includes a plurality of rotating discs, the applicator housing further including a series of openings, wherein a rotation of the rotating discs causes the particulate matter received from the particulate sifter assembly to be deposited below the particulate applicator assembly onto the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15092497', '11465163', '12967271', '11351447', '12283103']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7935194147309553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.598874594367146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7740549326945744
- Mean Citation Score: 253.63244
- Max Citation Score: 510.04187
- Similarity Product: 502.3990014666503

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

Dataset: test