PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16033336
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["086", "050000"]

Abstract:
Detonable devices such as charged air bag inflators are fed to a shred tower at a controlled feed rate via a feed valve. Water spray and/or water baths in the shred tower prevent sparking and begin to solubilize chemicals while the inflators are fed to primary and optional secondary shredders respectively performing course and fine shreds. A sump receives the shredded material which continues to solubilize and separate chemicals from metal. A conveyor lifts solids from the sump. Dewatered solids are fed to a receiving box for metal scrap recycling.

Claim (Index 28):
A method for rendering inert and separating components of detonable devices fabricated from metal and water soluble chemical explosive propellants, for recycling, the method comprising:\n (a) receiving, with a feeder, material including a plurality of the detonable devices; (b) conveying the material in a downstream direction through a shred tower including a hopper, at least one shredder disposed within and/or downstream of the hopper, and a water sump disposed downstream of the at least one shredder; (c) feeding, with a first conveyor operatively engaged with the feeder and the shred tower, the material from the feeder to an upstream portion of the hopper at a controlled feed rate; (d) selectively actuating a feed valve disposed at the upstream portion of the hopper, between open and closed positions to respectively permit and prevent the material from entering the upstream portion of the hopper; (e) irrigating with irrigation means, to substantially prevent sparking and to begin to solubilize and separate chemicals from the metal during operation of the at least one shredder; (f) shredding the material with the at least one shredder; (g) receiving, in the water sump, the material from the at least one shredder to continue to solubilize and separate the chemicals from the metal; (h) lifting, with a second conveyor, solids including shreds of the metal from sump, wherein residual water runs from the solids back to the sump to produce dewatered solids; and (i) feeding, with the second conveyor, the dewatered solids to a receiving box for metal scrap recycling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50794
- Patent Class: 86.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13424363', '12939052', '13065154', '13818069', '13848700']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5838718365781399
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4786642305019891
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5733510759705249
- Mean Citation Score: 155.36800399999996
- Max Citation Score: 161.78506000000004
- Similarity Product: 114.0378186349726

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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