PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038017
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["053", "374400"]

Abstract:
A film fin sealing device is disclosed herein which may have a groove defining a base. The base of the groove of the fin sealing device may be oriented at a skewed angle with respect to a longitudinal direction of the conveyor of a heat sealing machine. Edges of a thermoplastic sheet or two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets are introduced into the groove of the film fin sealing device and placed in contact therewith to both heat and fuse the distal edge portions of the thermoplastic sheet(s) to join the edge portions thereof to form a fin seal.

Claim (Index 11):
A fin seal heater block mountable to a heat sealing machine, the fin seal heater block comprising:\n a body disposed adjacent to a thermoplastic sheet(s), the body having a base being oriented at a skew angle with respect to a longitudinal direction of the thermoplastic sheet(s) so that edges of the first and second layers of a folded thermoplastic sheet or two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets directly contact the base of the body as the edges of the first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) are fed through the heat sealing machine and the body is adapted to be connected to a heat source to conduct heat from the heat source to the base of the body to heat and seal the edge portions of the first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) together to form a fin seal; upper and lower guides adjacent to the base of the fin seal heater block to maintain the edge portions of the first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) on the base as the thermoplastic sheet(s) is fed through the heat sealing machine wherein the upper and lower guides and the base define a groove.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15294450', '14827145', '11951601', '11581219', '10994691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7669440011559918
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.535948508458298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438444518862225
- Mean Citation Score: 266.06886000000003
- Max Citation Score: 391.42737
- Similarity Product: 373.4141502786756

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

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