PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "397060"]

Abstract:
A food patty aligning and separating apparatus with a conveyor belt having horizontal cleats extending through a hopper beneath patties. Dividers extend longitudinally through the hopper to form lanes. The conveyor belt's cleats urge patties along lanes up a vertical span of the conveyor, thereby aligning the patties horizontally in a line. The patties pass over a peak and slide down a curved plate to distance the aligned group of patties from a next upstream group of patties. Guide members are spaced from the conveyor belt on hopper side to shear combined patties or pivot outward and cause combined patties to roll back into the hopper.

Claim (Index 18):
The method in accordance with  claim 17 , further comprising pivotably mounting a guide member near one guide member end, the guide member extending adjacent to, and spaced from, the second span a distance greater than the predetermined distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66176
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14137406', '14269570', '14807600', '15337187', '12009616']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6894521167090346
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488181616156159
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6693250666537471
- Mean Citation Score: 214.236224
- Max Citation Score: 220.47844
- Similarity Product: 134.46796023589135

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

Dataset: test