PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405892
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["065", "134400"]

Abstract:
Processes and systems for producing molten glass using submerged combustion melters, including densifying an initial composition comprising vitrifiable particulate solids and interstitial gas to form a densified composition comprising the solids by removing a portion of the interstitial gas from the composition. The initial composition is passed from an initial environment having a first pressure through a second environment having a second pressure higher than the first pressure to form a composition being densified. Any fugitive particulate solids escaping from the composition being densified are captured and recombined with the composition being densified to form the densified composition. The densified composition is fed into a feed inlet of a turbulent melting zone of a melter vessel and converted into turbulent molten material using at least one submerged combustion burner in the turbulent melting zone.

Claim (Index 19):
A submerged combustion melter system for melting a glass-forming material from a substantially solid form into a turbulent melt form, the submerged combustion melter system comprising:\n a melt chamber comprising a floor, a roof, and a least one wall, wherein the floor, the roof, and the at least one wall at least partially define an interior of the melt chamber, and wherein the interior of the melt chamber is configured to receive the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material, and contain the turbulent melt form of the glass-forming material, wherein the turbulent melt form of the glass-forming material has a turbulent melt surface, and wherein the floor defines a burner opening; at least one submerged combustion burner disposed in the burner opening; a feed system disposed proximate the at least one wall, wherein the feed system is configured to feed to the interior of the melt chamber the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material, and wherein the feed system comprises:\n a source chamber configured to receive the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; \n a shroud communicatively coupled to the source chamber; \n a screw feeder rotatably disposed in the shroud, the screw feeder comprising a shaft and a thread, wherein rotation of the screw feeder compresses the substantially solid form of the glass-forming material; \n a seal section disposed at a first end of the shroud, wherein the seal section is configured to receive the compressed substantially solid form of the glass-forming material from the screw feeder; and \n a ram disposed proximate the seal section, wherein actuation of the ram releases the compressed substantially solid form of the glass-forming material from the seal section via an outlet and into the interior of the melt chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01449
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13540704', '15358286', '13633979', '15272703', '14752556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7891674819026393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5978440902261125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7700351427349866
- Mean Citation Score: 360.519336
- Max Citation Score: 466.66006
- Similarity Product: 382.0953475080919

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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