PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16451311
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["201", "025000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and process for thermally de-manufacturing tires and other materials. The apparatus is a retort chamber with various zones in which tires are combusted to provide energy for the thermal depolymerization reaction, depolymerization takes place, and products leave the retort chamber. In one embodiment, the process reacts water with iron present in steel-belted tires to produce hydrogen, which helps to break sulfur-sulfur bonds in vulcanized materials. The water also helps control the temperature of the reaction, which allows for control over the types and relative amounts of the various depolymerization products.

Claim (Index 15):
A process for thermally de-manufacturing tires and/or other materials, comprising:\n a) loading the retort chamber of  claim 1  with tires and/or other materials, b) purging the retort chamber of volatiles and air, such that a vacuum in the range of between approximately \u22120.8 and \u2212200 millibars is present in the retort chamber, c) heating a portion of the tires and/or other materials at or near the bottom of the retort chamber to a temperature between about 900 and 1300\u00b0 C., and d) thermally depolymerizing the tires and/or other materials to form a product stream which exits the retort chamber through an outlet port, which product stream is in the gas phase while exiting the retort chamber, while maintaining the temperature in the zone where the products leave the retort chamber at a temperature between about 100 and 280\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71186
- Patent Class: 201.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15552358', '15428832', '14022303', '13608497', '11460547']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6268772085339727
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5625982625147334
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6204493139320487
- Mean Citation Score: 208.0438
- Max Citation Score: 390.14346
- Similarity Product: 382.4996115711093

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

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