PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748319
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["118", "062000"]

Abstract:
A metering device is disclosed for regulating the depth of flowable product coating a surface movable relative to the metering device by directing an air curtain towards the surface. The metering device comprises a body ( 10 ) having an interior chamber ( 12 ), an inlet for connecting the chamber to a source of gas under super-ambient pressure; and an opening ( 16 ) communicating with the chamber and having a mouth through which gas is discharged from the chamber towards the surface to form the air curtain. A porous or reticulated membrane ( 18 ) is secured to, or formed integrally with, the body of the device to lie in the path of the gas discharged through the mouth of the opening.

Claim (Index 4):
A product metering device as claimed in  claim 1 , when positioned opposite a surface carrying a layer of the product, wherein the distance between the mouth of opening and the surface is less than 2 mm, or less than 1.5 mm, or less than 1 mm or less than 0.5 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98485
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09548984', '10556363', '12901119', '14185706', '10866071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.788273360418857
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812863309130185
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7575746574682732
- Mean Citation Score: 119.940527
- Max Citation Score: 122.84837
- Similarity Product: 77.68032176763295

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

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