PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16090229
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["405", "179000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for backfilling a trench and, more particularly, an apparatus for laying a pipeline bed layer in a trench and for laying a pipeline bedding layer once a pipeline is laid in the trench. The apparatus comprises a multi-deck screen vibrating unit. The upper deck screen comprises finger tines or a grizzly arrangement.

Claim (Index 11):
A self-propelled apparatus for backfilling a trench with filler material while moving alongside the trench, the apparatus comprising:\n a feed hopper that receives raw material that includes elements of different sizes; a multi-deck vibrating screen unit that segregates the material into waste material and filler material; a vibrator that vibrates the multi-deck vibrating screen unit; a first conveyor that transports the raw material from the feed hopper to the multi-deck vibrating screen unit; and a second conveyor that transports the filler material to the trench; wherein: the multi-deck vibrating screen unit comprises an upper deck screen, at least a lower deck screen below the upper deck screen, and a bottom surface below the lower deck screen that receives the filler material; the upper deck screen comprises a plurality of elongated members upon which the raw material is deposited; the plurality of elongated members segregates the raw material into a first part of the waste material and screened material; the lower deck screen segregates the screened material into a second part of the waste material and the filler material; the bottom surface forms a slide that transports the filler material to the second conveyor; and the second conveyor extends beyond at least one side of the self-propelled apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68571
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10522177', '13063557', '10792433', '15471094', '12576403']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7342077814810538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4764633475158612
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7084333380845346
- Mean Citation Score: 153.520014
- Max Citation Score: 159.32285
- Similarity Product: 111.65821122562288

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

Dataset: test