PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749387
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["221", "221000"]

Abstract:
A cup dispensing apparatus comprising at least one magazine adapted to accommodate a stack of cups, and a releasing device, which has a vertical channel designed to be engaged by the stack, is configured to support the stack and release, when operated, the last cup, and is equipped with at least three releasing elements movable on a horizontal plane in respective directions substantially tangential to said channel, between a rest position, in which they define a horizontal first support plane designed to be engaged by the last cup to support the stack, and a release position, in which they define a second support plane at a higher level than the first support plane and designed to be engaged by the penultimate cup to support the rest of the stack; each releasing device has an associated separating device adapted to impart a downward detaching thrust on the last cup when the respective releasing element reaches the release position.

Claim (Index 12):
The cup dispensing apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein each of the at least three releasing elements has, on a side facing the substantially vertical axis, a first protrusion that is bounded at a top thereof by a substantially horizontal flat surface, is arranged inside the channel when the respective one of the at least three releasing elements is in the rest position, and on the outside of the channel when the one of the at least three releasing elements is in the release position, and defines, with the other first protrusions, the horizontal first support plane; each of the at least three releasing elements is further provided, on the same side facing the axis, with a second protrusion that is bounded at a top thereof by a substantially horizontal flat surface, is arranged on an outside of the channel when the one of the at least three releasing elements is in the rest position, and inside the channel when the respective one of the at least three releasing elements is in the release position, and defines, with the other second protrusions, the second support plane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31507
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14121936', '16080778', '14121782', '13999532', '13507808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.751616866866829
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4881407935208667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7252692595322329
- Mean Citation Score: 169.541434
- Max Citation Score: 186.05067
- Similarity Product: 134.4038153323996

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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