PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16260463
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["366", "137100"]

Abstract:
A mixing chamber for mixing a variety of dry ingredients with a liquid is disclosed. The mixing chamber has an accumulation chamber that evenly distributes ingredients as they pass a liquid spray nozzle, resulting in uniform hydration. The liquid may be sprayed at a variety of pressures to achieve varying levels of granule hydration to permit the manufacture of dough, batter, or other compositions. Even dry ingredients which are generally slow to absorb moisture may be rapidly and evenly hydrated without an excess of liquid. Process parameters, such as volume flow rate of the dry ingredients, can also be varied.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of combining and hydrating free-falling dry ingredients, comprising:\n providing a mixing chamber for hydrating food ingredients, the mixing chamber having:\n a variable ingredients inlet that delivers free falling ingredients to an accumulation chamber, the ingredients inlet is variable to adjust the free falling ingredients presented to the accumulation chamber, \n providing a diverter in the accumulation chamber that has an upper surface and a lower surface spaced by a predetermined distance from the upper surface, \n providing a liquid discharge nozzle that depends from the diverter and extends below the lower surface of the diverter to discharge a liquid spray that contacts the free falling ingredients after the ingredients pass the lower surface of the diverter, and \n providing a mixing tube that receives the ingredients from the accumulation chamber; \n supplying dry food ingredients to the ingredients inlet; \n delivering, via the ingredients inlet, the dry food ingredients to the accumulation chamber; \n directing, via the diverter, the free falling dry food ingredients outwardly toward a wall of the accumulation chamber; discharging a liquid spray that contacts the outwardly directed free falling dry food ingredient; and receiving the hydrated food ingredients in the mixing tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57143
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15532503', '12319800', '11276549', '11737690', '13477119']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8160033245615915
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4973796655537028
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7841409586608027
- Mean Citation Score: 192.6842
- Max Citation Score: 313.00436
- Similarity Product: 245.3378937904501

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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