PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140367
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["198", "464200"]

Abstract:
Embodiments provide an electric lug loader system. An electric lug loader may include a shaft assembly rotatably mounted to a frame that extends across a flow path. The shaft assembly may have shafts arranged radially around, and parallel to, the rotational axis of the shaft assembly, clamp members arranged along each of the shafts, support members arranged radially around the rotational axis and across the flow path, and electric drives coupled to the shafts. Conveyors may be coupled with the frame and spaced apart across the flow path upstream and/or downstream of the shaft assembly. Additional drives may be coupled with the shaft assembly and the conveyors. A controller may be configured to synchronize the drives to engage successive workpieces between the clamp members and the support members and deposit the workpieces onto a lugged conveyor. Other embodiments provide related methods and systems.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of modifying a lumber handling system, wherein the lumber handling system has an infeed and an outfeed configured to convey elongate workpieces in a transverse orientation along a flow path, the method comprising:\n rotatably mounting a shaft assembly between the infeed and the outfeed such that the shaft assembly extends across the flow path, wherein the shaft assembly has a generally horizontal rotational axis, a plurality of generally parallel first shafts arranged radially around the rotational axis, a plurality of clamp members coupled with each of the first shafts, and a plurality of first drives coupled with corresponding ones of the first shafts; coupling a second drive with the shaft assembly, wherein the second drive is configured to rotate the shaft assembly around the rotational axis; and operatively coupling a controller with the second drive and the first drives, wherein the controller is configured to control the first drives to selectively reposition the clamp members between a clamping position and a releasing position while the shaft assembly is rotated by the second drive.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14297504', '15167618', '15582580', '14055513', '14635862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7091177211553142
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5023340642707204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6884393554668549
- Mean Citation Score: 279.83142200000003
- Max Citation Score: 339.7596
- Similarity Product: 331.92499880919456

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

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