PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["222", "560000"]

Abstract:
A bulk material dispensing system including a dispensing apparatus suspended from a fixed surface that is configured to receive bulk material from a tank. A metering device feeds the bulk material from the tank to the dispensing apparatus, and a weigh scale is located between the dispensing apparatus and the fixed surface. A controller is in communication with each of the weigh scale and the metering device such that, based on a signal received from the weigh scale that is indicative of the amount of the bulk material that has been fed to the dispensing apparatus by the metering device, the controller controls a rate at which the metering device feeds the bulk material to the dispensing apparatus to ensure that an accurate amount of the bulk material is received by the dispensing apparatus.

Claim (Index 13):
The system according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a second dispensing apparatus suspended from the fixed surface, and configured to receive the first bulk material from the first tank and dispense the first bulk material; a second a conveying system positioned between the first tank and the second dispensing apparatus, and including a second metering device for feeding the first bulk material from the first tank to the second dispensing apparatus; and a second weigh scale located between the second dispensing apparatus and the fixed surface, and configured to communicate a signal indicative of an amount of the first bulk material that has been fed to the second dispensing apparatus by the second metering device, wherein the controller is in communication with each of the second weigh scale and the second metering device, and based on the signal indicative of the amount of the first bulk material that has been fed to the second dispensing apparatus by the second metering device, is configured to control a rate at which the second metering device feeds the first bulk material to the second dispensing apparatus to ensure that an accurate amount of the first bulk material is received by the second dispensing apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64151
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12777395', '11422803', '14003672', '10633463', '13599024']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7634712215997822
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4585883332515229
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7329829327649563
- Mean Citation Score: 175.26021200000002
- Max Citation Score: 182.87509
- Similarity Product: 149.39190636503574

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

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