PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15771540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["210", "400000"]

Abstract:
A vacuum belt filter including a belt with a plurality of vacuum boxes, filter means being arranged to the vacuum boxes, drive means for moving the belt, and a suction station for creating an underpressure to the vacuum boxes at the suction station. In order to enable liquid-solid separation at low energy costs and long service interval of the vacuum belt filter, the filter means is in the form of a capillary filter, each vacuum box being provided with such a filter and each vacuum box being provided with an outlet having a check valve enabling a fluid flow from the inside space of the vacuum box to the outside of the vacuum box for creating an underpressure in the vacuum box when the suction station is connected to the vacuum box.

Claim (Index 80):
The vacuum belt filter according to  claim 79 , wherein the suction station comprises a non-rotatable stationary distribution part and that the suction means comprises a rotating distribution valve suction arrangement, the stationary distribution part comprising a suction port having a suction opening, and the rotating distribution valve suction arrangement comprising a rotating member having a plurality of suction ends connectable to the outlets of the vacuum boxes, the suction ends being peripherically arranged at the rotating member, a plurality of adjacent openings being provided at a distribution surface of the rotating member, the openings being arranged at a distance from one another and the rotating member further comprising a plurality of conduits each having a first end being in fluid communication with a suction end of the plurality of suction ends of the rotating member, and a second end being in fluid communication with an opening of the plurality of openings of the rotating member, the suction opening of the stationary distribution part facing only one or some of the openings of the distribution surface so that the one or some of the openings of the distribution surface comes into fluid communication with the suction opening at intervals when the rotating member and the distribution surface thereof are rotating in relation to the stationary distribution part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35593
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15559978', '12809939', '12936387', '15539164', '11798649']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7674826943972007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4664678914736839
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7373812141048491
- Mean Citation Score: 151.981782
- Max Citation Score: 165.06992
- Similarity Product: 124.40929560677527

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

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