PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["198", "431000"]

Abstract:
A method and an apparatus are provided for the grouped arrangement, orientation and packaging of stacked food products like patty stacks. The method includes feeding a food product by a first feed belt in the direction of a first X-axis, and then ejecting the food product onto a second feed belt to form stacked food products. The method also includes transporting the stacked food products by the second feed belt along a Y-axis generally perpendicular to the X-axis and in the direction of an orientation mask which is arranged above the second feed belt. The stacked food products are oriented by contacting the orientation mask. The oriented food products may therefore be grouped together in oriented rows for packaging when further moved along the Y-axis by the second feed belt. The method and apparatus enable rapid orienting of various types of food products that are typically stacked and packaged.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the food products include stacked products such as patty stacks, and the method comprises:\n successively feeding a plurality of the food products by the first feed belt, ejecting the plurality of food products onto the second feed belt to form a plurality of stacked products at a plurality of different X-positions on the X-axis in adjacent relationship to the orientation mask which has a plurality of compartments, which are respectively arranged at various X-positions along the X-axis so that the ejected plurality of stacked products form a row on the second feed belt, transporting the plurality of stacked products by the second feed belt along the Y-axis in the direction of the orientation mask so that the plurality of stacked products at least partially contacts the orientation mask and is at least partially oriented with respect to at least one of the X-axis and the Y-axis on the second feed belt, and further transporting the oriented plurality of stacked products by the second feed belt in the direction of the Y-axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27536
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10075596', '11327836', '12606846', '12997379', '15668057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7438741016100291
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4609097886674252
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7155776703157687
- Mean Citation Score: 182.504228
- Max Citation Score: 198.0593
- Similarity Product: 147.85410373315813

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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