PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749316
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "465100"]

Abstract:
An apparatus to permit transferring the retaining-and-centering unit that has been supplied to the first handling-station in a receiving direction thereof to a second handling-station includes a carrier that carrier secures a securing device to the first handling-station, a receiving unit, a drive, and a securing apparatus that cooperate to detachably secure a retaining-and-centering unit to a first-handling station. The securing apparatus detachably secures the retaining-and-centering unit to the first handling-station. The receiving unit, which is on the carrier, connects the securing apparatus to the carrier. The drive moves the receiving unit parallel to the receiving direction.

Claim (Index 38):
A method comprising moving a retaining-and-centering unit along a transport section of a container-handling machine, said transport section comprising a plurality of transport elements, each of which rotates about a vertical machine-axis thereof, each of said transport elements being configured to hold containers at handling stations thereof, wherein said retaining-and-centering unit holds a container that is to be treated, wherein said plurality of transport elements comprises a first transport element and a second transport element adjacent to said first transport element, wherein said first transport element comprises a first handling station and said second transport element comprises a second handling station, wherein each of said first and second handling stations comprises a receiving unit and a carrier, wherein moving said retaining-and-centering unit comprises transferring said retaining-and-centering unit from said first handling station to said second handling station, wherein transferring a container comprises releasing said retaining-and-centering unit from a releasing securing-device of said first handling station and passing said retaining-and-centering unit to said second handling station, wherein, during said transfer, a selected receiving unit moves radially relative to a selected axis, wherein said selected receiving unit is selected from the group consisting of said receiving unit of said first handling station and said receiving unit of said second handling station, wherein, when said selected receiving unit is said receiving unit of said first handling station said selected axis is the vertical machine-axis of said first transport element, and wherein, when said selected receiving unit is said receiving unit of said second handling station said selected axis is the vertical machine-axis of said second transport element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58537
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15756304', '15543079', '13990565', '15770819', '15309874']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7232208203457067
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4524456644291956
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6961433047540555
- Mean Citation Score: 194.006364
- Max Citation Score: 204.9812
- Similarity Product: 166.28759607825282

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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