PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15765287
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["053", "317000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for capping a container ( 10 ) comprises: —a conveying device for conveying the container ( 10 ) along a path; —an applying head ( 23 ) for applying a lid ( 1 ) onto a neck ( 9 ) included in an opening device of the container ( 10 ); —a welding head ( 43 ) arranged downstream of the applying head ( 23 ), the welding head ( 43 ) comprising a welding element ( 51 ) for welding the lid ( 1 ) to the opening device.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus for capping a container, comprising:\n a conveying device for conveying the container along a path; an applying head for applying a lid onto a neck of the container, wherein the neck is included in an opening device of the container; a welding head arranged downstream of the applying head, the welding head comprising a welding element for welding the lid to the opening device; and a movement device configured to: (a) move the applying head synchronously with the conveying device along a portion of the path, so as to apply the lid to the neck as the container moves along the portion of the path, and (b) move the welding head synchronously with the conveying device along a portion of the path, so as to weld the lid to the opening device as the container moves along the portion of the path, wherein the conveying device comprises a linear conveyor for advancing the container in an advancement direction, and wherein the applying head and the welding head are moveable forward and backward along the advancement direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30952
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15755132', '11684197', '16081447', '15527841', '15107695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7345702656608321
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332106177895486
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7144343008737037
- Mean Citation Score: 230.21637400000003
- Max Citation Score: 385.85077
- Similarity Product: 316.20455624878053

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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