PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016480
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["198", "442000"]

Abstract:
A singulator apparatus and system for use with a product conveying and/or sorting system to place products in a single layer line of such products that are also separated from each other so the products may be more effectively and efficiently sized, inspected, sorted or otherwise processed in the processing area of the conveying and/or sorting system. The singulator apparatus has at least one pair, preferably a plurality, of adjacent cylindrical assemblies that are linearly aligned to be parallel with each other and define a valley between the adjacent cylindrical assemblies. Jumbled products are directed to the valleys from a product transfer area that receives the products. The cylindrical assemblies each have a cylindrical member and a shaft, with the shaft connected to a rotating mechanism that rotates the cylindrical assemblies to singulate and separate the products as they move along the valley between cylindrical assemblies.

Claim (Index 11):
A cylinder singulator apparatus for singulating a plurality of jumbled products into a plurality of singulated products so each product thereof may be further processed in a processing area of a product conveying and/or sorting system, said apparatus comprising:\n a product transfer area at a first end of said apparatus, said product transfer area structured and arranged to receive the plurality of jumbled products, said product transfer area having one or more infeed delivery plates; a product delivery area at a second end of said apparatus, said product delivery area structured and arranged to deliver the plurality of singulated products to the processing area; a singulation area disposed between said product transfer area and said product delivery area, said singulation area having a plurality of cylindrical assemblies between said first end and said second end of said apparatus so as to define one or more pairs of adjacent cylindrical assemblies, each of said cylindrical assemblies having a cylindrical member and a shaft attached to or integral with said cylindrical member, each of said pair of adjacent cylindrical assemblies being linearly aligned to define a valley that is sized and configured to receive the plurality of jumbled products and for said cylindrical members of said pair of adjacent cylindrical assemblies to rotatably engage each of the products to singulate and separate the products to produce the plurality of singulated products and to move the plurality of singulated products along a singulation path to said product delivery area, each of said one or more infeed delivery plates configured to direct the jumbled product to one or more valleys between said pair of adjacent cylindrical assemblies; and a rotating mechanism operatively connected to said shaft of each of said cylindrical assemblies so as to rotate each of said cylindrical assemblies, said rotating mechanism having a rotation producing device configured to produce rotating motion and one or more rotating devices operatively interconnecting said rotation producing device and said shaft of each of said cylindrical assemblies so as to rotate said cylindrical assemblies upon rotation of said rotating producing device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91358
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15326642', '14250480', '14745985', '14045660', '14315129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7097516457199793
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4683665640706168
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.685613137555043
- Mean Citation Score: 175.056918
- Max Citation Score: 197.45432
- Similarity Product: 133.47771959753513

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

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