PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "397060"]

Abstract:
A food patty aligning and separating apparatus with a conveyor belt having horizontal cleats extending through a hopper beneath patties. Dividers extend longitudinally through the hopper to form lanes. The conveyor belt's cleats urge patties along lanes up a vertical span of the conveyor, thereby aligning the patties horizontally in a line. The patties pass over a peak and slide down a curved plate to distance the aligned group of patties from a next upstream group of patties. Guide members are spaced from the conveyor belt on hopper side to shear combined patties or pivot outward and cause combined patties to roll back into the hopper.

Claim (Index 9):
A food product aligning apparatus comprising:\n (a) a hopper for receiving a plurality of food products; (b) a conveyor belt extending along an enclosed loop path at least below the hopper forming a first span of the conveyor belt defining a hopper floor, the conveyor belt extending upwardly from below the hopper toward a peak forming a second span of the conveyor belt having a vertical component and defining a hopper wall; (c) a plurality of horizontally-oriented cleats mounted to the conveyor belt at longitudinally-spaced intervals, each of the cleats protruding from a belt surface; and (d) a curved plate having a vertical component portion extending downwardly from the peak toward a curved portion and extending to a horizontal component portion, the curved plate for receiving the food products that are raised by the cleats over the peak and slide down the vertical component portion and curved portion and are oriented substantially horizontally at the horizontal component portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66176
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14137406', '14269570', '14807600', '15337187', '12009616']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6914457985742541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4785175485772436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6701529735745532
- Mean Citation Score: 214.236224
- Max Citation Score: 220.47844
- Similarity Product: 152.59949942626002

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

Dataset: test