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 1):
A manufacturing system for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament, the system comprising:\n a first extruder section that is adapted to advance a polymer melt towards a second extruder section, the second extruder section being adapted to separate the polymer melt into at least eight streams of polymer melt so that the at least eight streams of polymer melt pass through an interior portion of a chamber; a pressure regulation system that is adapted to maintain a chamber pressure within the interior portion of the chamber between about 0 millibars and about 5 millibars as the at least eight streams of polymer melt pass through the interior portion of the chamber; a third extruder section that is adapted to receive the at least eight streams of polymer after the at least eight streams of polymer have been exposed to the chamber pressure of between about 0 millibars and about 5 millibars and to convey polymer from the at least eight streams of polymer relative to the chamber; and a spinning machine that is adapted to receive the polymer that has been conveyed by the third extruder section and to form the conveyed 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): 0.8128181895955499
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6373294481898089
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7952693154549757
- Mean Citation Score: 489.51269400000007
- Max Citation Score: 537.9277
- Similarity Product: 439.5408136515736

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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