PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038017
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["053", "374400"]

Abstract:
A film fin sealing device is disclosed herein which may have a groove defining a base. The base of the groove of the fin sealing device may be oriented at a skewed angle with respect to a longitudinal direction of the conveyor of a heat sealing machine. Edges of a thermoplastic sheet or two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets are introduced into the groove of the film fin sealing device and placed in contact therewith to both heat and fuse the distal edge portions of the thermoplastic sheet(s) to join the edge portions thereof to form a fin seal.

Claim (Index 18):
A heat sealing machine for forming a fin seal of a folded thermoplastic sheet or two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets when wrapping a product, the machine comprising:\n a stand for holding a roll of folded thermoplastic sheet or the two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets; a heater mechanism; a fin seal heater block attached to the heater mechanism for heating the fin seal heater block, the fin seal heater block disposed adjacent to edges of the thermoplastic sheet(s), the fin seal heater block having a base oriented at a skew angle with respect to the edges of first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) so that the edge portions of the first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) approaches the base and contacts the base to heat and seal the first and second edge portions together to form the fin seal as the thermoplastic sheet(s) is fed through the heat sealing machine; upper and lower guides adjacent to the base of the fin seal heater block to maintain the edge portions of the first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) on the base as the thermoplastic sheet(s) is fed through the heat sealing machine; a set of pinch rollers or belts disposed adjacent to the fin seal heater block for controlling forward travel of the edges of the first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) as the edge portions of the first and second layers of the thermoplastic sheet(s) are fed against the base of the fin seal heater block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15294450', '14827145', '11951601', '11581219', '10994691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7668709317275372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5360529469046557
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7437891332452491
- Mean Citation Score: 266.06886000000003
- Max Citation Score: 391.42737
- Similarity Product: 376.1244996937929

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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