PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954095
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["264", "320000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a material includes presenting a formable material to a space between opposing forming surfaces of opposed forming tools from whence said material is carried as said opposing forming surfaces advance in a machine direction. The method includes pressurising, as said opposing forming surfaces advance, said material between said opposing forming surfaces in a reduced space between said opposing forming surfaces defining at least in part a pressure forming zone, said reduced space between said opposing forming surfaces being maintained constant until a form of at least one of said opposing forming surfaces is profiled into said material and is retainable thereon. The method also includes releasing the profiled material from between the said opposing forming surfaces, as the space of the pressure forming zone increases between said opposing forming surfaces as the opposing forming surfaces advance.

Claim (Index 52):
A method of forming a material, said method comprising the steps of:\n a. presenting a formable material to a space between opposing forming surfaces of opposed forming tools from whence said material is carried as said opposing forming surfaces advance in a machine direction, b. pressurising, as said opposing forming surfaces advance, said material between said opposing forming surfaces in a reduced space between said opposing forming surfaces defining at least in part a pressure forming zone, said reduced space between said opposing forming surfaces being maintained constant until a form of at least one of said opposing forming surfaces is profiled into said material and is retainable thereon, and c. releasing the profiled material from between the said opposing forming surfaces, as the space of the pressure forming zone increases between said opposing forming surfaces as the opposing forming surfaces advance, wherein each of said opposing forming surfaces, is provided by one or more forming tool(s) of a set of forming tools being advanced about its own guiding circuit, and wherein as said forming tools present in a zone to pressurise or release said material there is no gap between adjacent said forming tools at least where they contact said forming material, and the relative movement between adjacent tools of at least one of said set of forming tools over said zone is only towards or away from the forming tools of said other opposing forming surface, and wherein adjacent forming tools of said forming tool sets are aligned to each other by one or a combination of:\n use of lasers and grid markings; \n measurement of forming tools in the pressure forming zone and their relation to one another and then adjusting the relative location of the forming tool sets; or \n physically locking to each other by at least a first lock at least over said pressure forming zone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82692
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14562338', '13754021', '12085162', '12514980', '13123176']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7914249323956846
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5629993986824616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7685823790243622
- Mean Citation Score: 296.983386
- Max Citation Score: 434.58603
- Similarity Product: 423.3814081958431

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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