PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["404", "079000"]

Abstract:
A portable asphalt heater for heating asphalt includes an asphalt hopper having a floor, first and second side walls and front and rear end walls, the side walls and end walls extending from the floor and defining an opening into a cavity, the opening having an area lesser than an area of the floor, at least one door selectively closing the opening, a heating manifold including a heating chamber adjacent to and positioned beneath the floor, the heating manifold adapted to be in fluid communication with a heater assembly and adapted to direct a heated gas emitted from the heater assembly through the heating chamber and heating manifold, the plurality of chimneys in fluid communication with and extending from the heating chamber and along the first and second side walls, wherein the volume of asphalt when in the asphalt hopper is heated through contact with the asphalt hopper.

Claim (Index 5):
The apparatus of  claim 4  wherein the outwardly extending portion extends outwardly from the floor at an angle of substantially 45 degrees from the vertical, and wherein the inwardly extending portion extends inwardly from the outwardly extending portion at an angle of substantially 30 degrees from the vertical,\n the hopper having a height extending substantially from the floor to the opening of the hopper, wherein a junction between the outwardly extending and inwardly extending portions of the first and second sidewalls is located at substantially 20% of the height of the hopper.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37879
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15926351', '13235756', '10860682', '15855403', '10458144']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7050977601169631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.520101844968813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6865981686021482
- Mean Citation Score: 217.491766
- Max Citation Score: 235.05537
- Similarity Product: 129.81404207497715

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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