PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16308144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["053", "396000"]

Abstract:
There is described a packaging apparatus ( 1 ) for forming sealed packages ( 2 ) from a tube ( 3 ). The packaging apparatus ( 1 ) has an endless conveyor device ( 7 ) arranged in a conveyor zone ( 8 ), conveying carts ( 9 ) and operative units ( 10, 10′ ) moved by the plurality of conveying carts ( 9 ) along a path (P, Q). Each operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) moves between an operative configuration, in which the operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) manipulates the tube ( 3 ) and a rest configuration in which the operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) is detached from the tube ( 3 ). Each operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) has a halfshell ( 36 ) and one of a sealing element ( 37 a ) or a counter-sealing element ( 37 b ) and each operative unit ( 10, 10′ ) is carried by one respective conveying cart ( 9 ) and extends laterally away therefrom so that the conveyor zone ( 8 ) is laterally spaced apart from an operative zone ( 33 ) where the tube is manipulated.

Claim (Index 21):
The packaging apparatus according to  claim 17 , wherein each operative unit is removably connected to the respective second side portion of the respective conveying cart.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65
- Patent Class: 53.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15542796', '15542730', '15301877', '14442758', '13125218']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.757444056909856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4980233732918938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7315019885480597
- Mean Citation Score: 195.467426
- Max Citation Score: 218.26387000000005
- Similarity Product: 135.94347902358413

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

Dataset: test