PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038017
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["053", "374400"]

Abstract:
A film fin sealing device is disclosed herein which may have a groove defining a base. The base of the groove of the fin sealing device may be oriented at a skewed angle with respect to a longitudinal direction of the conveyor of a heat sealing machine. Edges of a thermoplastic sheet or two stacked layers of thermoplastic sheets are introduced into the groove of the film fin sealing device and placed in contact therewith to both heat and fuse the distal edge portions of the thermoplastic sheet(s) to join the edge portions thereof to form a fin seal.

Claim (Index 5):
The machine of  claim 1  wherein the fin seal heater block reaches a temperature sufficient to melt the thermoplastic sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15294450', '14827145', '11951601', '11581219', '10994691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7887632111526913
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5363246332682933
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7635193533642516
- Mean Citation Score: 266.06886000000003
- Max Citation Score: 391.42737
- Similarity Product: 323.85082553695145

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

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