PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["426", "242000"]

Abstract:
A method of making a tablet for hot espresso beverage extraction includes the steps of grinding a brewable product to obtain a powder having a substantially uniform particle size, dosing a predetermined amount of the ground product powder, moistening the powdered product dose, homogenizing the moistened mixture to obtain a powdered product with a substantially uniform moisture content, forming the powdered product dose to obtain a disk-shaped or prismatic tablet, and supplying an amount of energy to the tablet to obtain a substantially compact and integral item. The step of supplying energy is carried out by irradiating the tablet with an electromagnetic wave beam to overheat and partially bake and/or sinter the particles of the powdered product and impart a relatively compact and self-supporting construction to the finished tablet. The electromagnetic wave irradiation step is carried out at the end of the forming step while continuously compressing the dose.

Claim (Index 1):
An arrangement for making a powdered product tablet for hot extraction of an espresso beverage using one or more ground brewable products, comprising:\n a volumetric dosing or forming unit adapted to isolate a product dose of a predetermined amount of a ground product; and an apparatus comprising: a forming unit having a hollow body configured to receive the product dose in moistened conditioned; a compression member associated with the hollow body and configured to compress the product dose collected therein and form a tablet having a desired shape; and a unit supplying energy to the tablet formed within the hollow body, the unit supplying energy comprising an irradiating device that emits a microwave beam, wherein the apparatus further comprises a spindle, vibration mixer, or other homogenizing device configured to stir the ground product and provide an essentially uniform moistened mixture, and wherein the irradiating device comprises a microwave generator connected to an antenna emitting an electromagnetic wave beam directed toward the hollow body to cause an overheating, partial baking, or sinterization of particles of the ground product and to partially bake or sinterize the particles and to impart thereto an essentially compact and self-supporting structure without any outer wrapping.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01282
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14434040', '12726480', '12738907', '11746771', '12671937']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.695726206000421
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4874601147611206
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.674899596876491
- Mean Citation Score: 136.325126
- Max Citation Score: 220.96382000000003
- Similarity Product: 168.8078500402892

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

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