PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955405
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["414", "798900"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for handling stacks of articles, such as cups or containers, includes a selectively extensible conveyor which can be indexed for moving the stacks of articles, and which can moved from an extended position to a retracted position. By movement from the extended position, the conveyor is moved from beneath one or more of the stacks for discharging stacks from the apparatus. The apparatus includes one or more movable stack gates for controlling, guiding, and stabilizing movement and discharge of the stacks, to thereby avoid problems associated with the instability of the stacked articles.

Claim (Index 4):
An apparatus for loading stacks of articles in accordance with  claim 1 , including first and second ones of stack gates positioned adjacent to each other at said discharge end of said upper run of said infeed conveyor at first and second endmost positions of said upper run,\n said pair of stack gates being independently positionable in each of said first open and second blocking positions, whereby said first stack gate can be positioned in said first open position thereof, and said second stack gate can be positioned in said second, blocking position thereof, so that one of said stacks of articles can be moved from said second endmost position to said first endmost position by operation of said infeed conveyor, while any further ones of said stacks are articles are prevented from moving into said second endmost position by said second stack gate being in its blocking position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13892544', '13400953', '12384978', '10259161', '10863523']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8759292535397245
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4899459758217458
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8373309257679267
- Mean Citation Score: 224.25998600000003
- Max Citation Score: 253.7255
- Similarity Product: 188.9166720309853

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

Dataset: test