PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "213000"]

Abstract:
A sheet stacker includes a sheet conveyor arrangement and a stacker platform. The sheets are fed in a sheet feeding direction on the stacker platform, to form stacks of sheets thereon. The stacker platform supports a stack conveyor configured and controlled to move in a conveyor direction to move the stack under formation such that sequentially piled up jobs are placed in an approximately centered position one with respect to the other according to the sheet feeding direction.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of forming a stack of sheets comprising a plurality of superposed jobs; the method comprising as follows:\n (a) feeding a plurality of sheets along a sheet conveyor arrangement towards a stacker platform, the sheet conveyor arrangement having a sheet discharge end, wherefrom the sheets are discharged onto the stacker platform in a sheet feeding direction and formed into a stack on a stack conveyor supported by the stacker platform; said stack conveyor being movable in a conveyor direction approximately parallel to the sheet feeding direction; (b) while the sheet stack gradually grows on the stack conveyor, moving the stacker platform and the sheet discharge end gradually away from each other; (c) once a first job of sheets having a first length in the sheet feeding direction has been stacked on the stack conveyor, moving the stack conveyor in the conveyor direction; (d) stacking a second job in an intermediate position on the first job; (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) until the stack is completed; (f) evacuating the stack from the stack conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70833
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15274606', '15724880', '14083190', '14817665', '15354671']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7111228727570952
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.521984026899003
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.692208988171286
- Mean Citation Score: 244.172628
- Max Citation Score: 356.01193
- Similarity Product: 310.09179923506383

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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