PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["347", "086000"]

Abstract:
A direct printing machine for printing containers with a direct print, having at least one stationary direct printing station with a direct print head, an ink supply system for supplying ink to the direct print head, and with a conveyor for conveying the containers past at the direct printing station, the ink supply system comprising a supply line and/or a return line for the printing ink, for producing ink flow from a supply tank to the direct print head and/or back, wherein the ink supply system comprises at least one header tank arranged in the supply line and/or the return line for setting a meniscus pressure of the printing ink, and a valve terminal is arranged between the header tank and the direct print head to interrupt the ink flow over the direct print head and to produce it in a bypass line.

Claim (Index 12):
The direct printing machine according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one stationary direct printing station comprises at least one further direct print head with at least one further valve terminal and with at least one further header tank, and wherein a distribution unit is arranged after the supply tank to distribute the printing ink to the direct print head and the at least one further direct print head.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69643
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16089378', '12590007', '13941596', '13146036', '12132025']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7902094268793598
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.492406680578435
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7604291522492674
- Mean Citation Score: 227.19411
- Max Citation Score: 244.57881
- Similarity Product: 183.03227859591723

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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