PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896736
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["264", "161000"]

Abstract:
Molded rubber objects may be molded and de-molded by defining both a desired final form for the molded rubber object and a tab extending from the final form of the molded rubber object using a cavity in a mold. Rubber pellets may be dispensed in predetermined amounts at desired location(s) within the cavity to provide the rubber needed to form the molded rubber object. Heat and pressure may be applied to the mold to cause the rubber pellets to fill the cavity defining both the desired final form of the molded rubber object and the tab. After the heat and pressure has been applied, a gripping device may grasp the tab and move the tab in a direction and with sufficient force to peel the rubber object from the mold cavity. If desired, the tab may be removed from the molded rubber object.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for forming molded rubber objects, the method comprising:\n closing a mold by bringing a mold top together with the mold bottom to define a molding surface of a cavity and a tab form within the mold, the molding surface defining a size and shape of a molded rubber object, and the tab form defining a size and shape of a tab extending from the molded rubber object, the tab form located, at least in part, in the mold top; forming a rubber object by processing rubber pellets positioned within the cavity; subsequent to forming the rubber object, opening the mold by at least partially moving the mold top away from the mold bottom; gripping the tab of the rubber object with a gripping device while the rubber object remains in the mold bottom; and moving the gripping device and the tab of the rubber object away from the mold bottom to separate the rubber object from the mold bottom.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46774
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15636048', '15398488', '14067260', '12757691', '10593949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7866670869673317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6016089693414636
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7681612752047449
- Mean Citation Score: 372.5283579999999
- Max Citation Score: 517.99194
- Similarity Product: 482.9092671957313

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

Dataset: test