PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126936
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["700", "122000"]

Abstract:
A system and method of performing an operation on a continuous sheet of stock material is provided. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and method used to perform an operation on a continuous sheet of stock material in a high speed manufacturing system. The continuous sheet of stock material can subsequently be received by a second system that performs a different operation on the continuous sheet of stock material. In one embodiment, the second system forms the continuous sheet of stock material into tabs for container end closures. The system can include an infeed accumulation device and an outfeed accumulation device. The infeed and outfeed accumulation devices enable the system to operate at a variable rate and out of phase with a high speed, coil fed manufacturing system to which the system may be removably integrated. The system can determine if the operation has been performed in at a predetermined location of a portion of the continuous sheet of stock material.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of controlling an apparatus that performs an operation on a continuous sheet of metallic material, comprising:\n accumulating a first length of slack in the continuous sheet of metallic material before the apparatus performs the operation; feeding a predetermined length of the continuous sheet of metallic material into the apparatus; performing the operation on a first portion of the continuous sheet of metallic material by the apparatus; accumulating a second length of slack in the continuous sheet of metallic material after the apparatus performs the operation; determining if the apparatus performed the operation at a predetermined location of the first portion of the continuous sheet of metallic material; and adjusting the predetermined length of the continuous sheet of metallic material fed into the apparatus such that the apparatus performs the operation at a predetermined location of a second portion of the continuous sheet of metallic material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20253
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15130319', '15424757', '11691033', '12688556', '12550326']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3648653160205757
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.554026250099424
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3837814094284605
- Mean Citation Score: 225.07164200000005
- Max Citation Score: 453.1949
- Similarity Product: 308.04798050704

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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