PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["241", "101500"]

Abstract:
A bale processor has a bale chamber mounted on a frame and a disintegrator shreds material from a bale and discharges shredded material laterally. A fan receives the shredded material through a fan inlet and blows the material out through a fan discharge. A conveyor receives the shredded material from the disintegrator along an inner side thereof. A side opening extends along an outer side of the conveyor and a side door is movable from a closed position, where the side opening is closed and the conveyor is enclosed and moves the shredded material along the conveyor and into the fan inlet, to an open position where the outer side of the conveyor is open and the conveyor moves the shredded material laterally out through the side opening. An auger conveyor mounted only on an end opposite the fan inlet leaves the fan inlet unobstructed, increasing capacity.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus of  claim 1  comprising:\n a base fixed to the frame at the mounted end of the auger; \n a support tube fixed to the base and extending from a base end thereof near the base to a discharge end thereof adjacent to the fan inlet; \n a drive shaft extending through the support tube, a base end of the drive shaft mounted in a bearing at the base end of the support tube, and a discharge end of the drive shaft mounted in a bearing at the discharge end of the support tube; \n a drive connected to the base end of the drive shaft and operative to rotate the drive shaft; \n wherein the auger comprises helical flighting extending from an auger tube, and the support tube extends through the auger tube such that a rotational axis of the auger coincides with the drive shaft, and wherein the auger tube is rotatably supported at a mounted end thereof on the support tube, and is fixed at a discharge end thereof to the discharge end of the drive shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7193
- Patent Class: 241.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14284469', '12720873', '12966091', '15147385', '10255030']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7974168162519647
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5833090201728874
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.776006036644057
- Mean Citation Score: 322.728446
- Max Citation Score: 519.87823
- Similarity Product: 457.8979040402806

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

Dataset: test