PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883662
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["072", "332000"]

Abstract:
A metal processing apparatus comprising: (i) a first tool portion including a first carrier, a cutting surface, a first plurality of dimple forming elements; (ii) a second tool portion including a second carrier, in opposing relation to the first tool portion, the second tool portion having a blade or adapted to receive the blade which is adapted to contact the cutting surface for cutting an edge of a metal sheet to form a cut edge in the metal sheet, a second plurality of dimple forming elements; and (iii) a dimpler indexer to index the first plurality of dimple forming from a first pre-determined location to a second pre-determined location. The metal processing apparatus may find particular use in creating dimples along one or more cut edges of a metal sheet to allow for stacking of the metal sheets with an airgap therebetween.

Claim (Index 37):
The metal processing apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the first tool portion, the second tool portion, or both include one or more conveying elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22535
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15193306', '15083219', '14389305', '13325759', '14862966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6723909235093627
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5549593933953324
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6606477704979596
- Mean Citation Score: 209.47092
- Max Citation Score: 418.854
- Similarity Product: 317.42957378768915

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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