PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["096", "183000"]

Abstract:
An improved water-oil separation apparatus with a separation vessel and associated water leg having internal inlet piping that feeds fluids to an engineered degassing boot, having an engineered degassing boot that is more effective in removing entrained gases from the incoming fluid stream, having an umbrella shaped upper baffle instead of an inverted umbrella shaped upper baffle, having an improved oil collection bucket or weir, having a much improved inlet water spiral distribution apparatus, having an improved water leg design, and having a water leg with a functional height that is externally adjustable to make it easier to regulate the oil-water interface level within the separation vessel.

Claim (Index 1):
A separation apparatus comprising:\n a separation vessel; a tube provided in the separation vessel; inlet piping attached to an inlet disposed along an upper portion of the tube, the inlet piping adapted to introduce a fluid mixture into a separation portion of the vessel where the fluid mixture separates into a gas, which gas collects in a gas layer at a top portion of the separation vessel, and into an oil layer and a water layer, which oil and water layers collect within the separation vessel below the gas layer; an outlet for the water layer provided within the water layer in the separation vessel; a water leg operably associated with the separation vessel; wherein the outlet for the water layer communicates with an inlet of the water leg that regulates a level of interface between the oil layer and water layer within the vessel, and an outlet provided on the water leg for discharging water out of the water leg, wherein the water leg is provided with an inner tube concentrically located within an outer tube and an adjustable height upper end of the inner tube serving as a flow over weir allowing water entering the water leg from the separation vessel to travel upward within the water leg and crest over the flow over weir to flow downward within the water leg to the outlet provided on the water leg, wherein the water leg includes an internal slip-sleeve that is configured to raise and lower relative to the inner tube, and wherein the water leg includes an internal pipe section attached to the inner tube and the internal slip-sleeve is disposed to raise and lower on the internal pipe section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 96.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15652998', '14337900', '14263076', '15709036', '13190560']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6514058569850883
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5705846128271621
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6433237325692958
- Mean Citation Score: 333.4452540000001
- Max Citation Score: 470.4253
- Similarity Product: 437.94542667012206

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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