PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16409599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["425", "378200"]

Abstract:
A system for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that is adapted for providing a polymer melt and dividing the polymer melt into a plurality of streams (e.g., at least six or eight streams) to increase a surface area of the polymer melt. The plurality of streams is then exposed to a pressure that is below approximately 5 millibars. The streams are then recombined into a single polymer stream and formed into bulked continuous carpet filament. In various embodiments, an extruder, such as a multi-screw extruder, is used to divide the polymer melt into the plurality of streams.

Claim (Index 15):
A manufacturing system for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament, the system comprising:\n a chamber defining an interior portion; a vacuum system that is adapted to maintain a chamber pressure within the interior portion of the chamber below about 5 millibars as at least eight streams of polymer melt pass through the interior portion of the chamber along substantially parallel paths, thereby exposing at least a respective portion of each of the at least eight streams to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars; an extruder that is positioned to receive polymer from the at least eight streams after the at least eight streams pass through the interior portion of the chamber as the interior portion of the chamber is maintained below about 5 millibars, and to advance the received polymer toward a spinning machine that is adapted to form the received polymer into bulked continuous carpet filament; and the spinning machine that is adapted to form the received polymer into bulked continuous carpet filament.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81356
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16220733', '16402583', '15204645', '15419955', '16041442']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8102554647514394
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6469376285276887
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7939236811290643
- Mean Citation Score: 489.51269400000007
- Max Citation Score: 537.9277
- Similarity Product: 483.1382712100148

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

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