PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937321
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["034", "134000"]

Abstract:
A single pass, multiple stage, rotary drum heat exchange dryer ( 22 ) is provided for drying products such as distillers grains and includes a tubular shell ( 64 ) with a moist product inlet ( 66 ), an opposed dried product outlet ( 70 ), and an internal drying chamber ( 78 ). The chamber ( 78 ) includes a convection drying first stage ( 80 ), and conductive drying final curing stage ( 82 ) an intermediate stage ( 84 ); the intermediate stage ( 84 ) is subdivided into a plurality of contiguous drying zones ( 86 - 92 ). The zones ( 86 - 92 ) include individual flighting assemblies ( 164 ) which are of substantially the same density and heat transfer ratios.

Claim (Index 7):
The dryer of  claim 1 , each of said zones including heat transfer flighting comprising a plurality of strut elements coupled to said drum and extending inwardly thereof, with a number of spaced apart heat transfer plates secured to corresponding strut elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80263
- Patent Class: 34.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12051560', '10386070', '14487536', '11953679', '09293198']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7229749348929553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4963651731127979
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7003139587149396
- Mean Citation Score: 237.29134600000003
- Max Citation Score: 248.05547
- Similarity Product: 162.3129042944795

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

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