System for processing cannabis crop materials
AssigneePearson Incorporated
InventorsAlex Pearson, Roy Olson, Casey Van Middendorp, Joshua Tracy
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Abstract
A system for grinding material in a material flow through the system may include a feed hopper having an interior for receiving material to be processed, a feed apparatus configured to receive material of the material flow from the feed hopper and control a feed rate of the material moving through the system, a roller mill apparatus configured to grind material of the material flow passing through the roller mill apparatus, and a classifier apparatus configured to remove portions of the material from the material flow.
Claims20
A system for grinding material in a flow of material moving through the system, the system having a top and a bottom with the flow of material from the top to the bottom, the system comprising:
- a feed receiver at the top of the system having an interior for receiving material in the flow of material to be processed;
- a feed apparatus configured to receive material in the flow of material from the feed receiver, the feed apparatus being configured to control a feed rate of the flow of material moving out of the receiver and through the system;
- a roller mill apparatus configured to grind material of the flow of material received by the roller mill apparatus from the feed apparatus;
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- a classifier apparatus receiving ground material of the flow of material from the roller mill apparatus and being configured to separate a portion of the flow of material to create a flow of process material at the bottom of the system for further processing from other portions of the flow of material to create a flow of waste material at the bottom of the system;
- wherein the classifier apparatus includes:
- a classifier housing defining a classifier housing interior and being elongated with a first end and a second end;
- a material support being positioned in the classifier housing interior and extending between the first and second ends of the classifier housing, at least a portion of the material support comprising a support grate having a plurality of holes formed therein through which material of a predetermined size or smaller is able to move through;
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- a scraper assembly for moving material entering the classifier apparatus along the material support.
A system for grinding material in a flow of material moving through the system, the system having a top and a bottom with the flow of material from the top to the bottom, the system comprising:
- a feed receiver at the top of the system having an interior for receiving material in the flow of material to be processed;
- a feed apparatus configured to receive material in the flow of material from the feed receiver, the feed apparatus being configured to control a feed rate of the flow of material moving out of the feed receiver and through the system;
- a roller mill apparatus configured to grind material of the flow of material received by the roller mill apparatus from the feed apparatus;
- a classifier apparatus receiving ground material of the flow of material from the roller mill apparatus and being configured to separate a portion of the flow of material to create a flow of process material at the bottom of the system for further processing from other portions of the flow of material to create a flow of waste material at the bottom of the system;
- wherein the feed apparatus includes a feed apparatus housing defining a feed apparatus interior;
- a feed rotor positioned in the feed housing interior and being mounted on the feed housing in a manner permitting rotation of the feed rotor to move material through the feed housing interior, the feed rotor comprising:
- a rotating shaft rotatably mounted on the feed apparatus housing;
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- a plurality of vanes extending outwardly from the rotating shaft to rotate with the shaft with respect to the feed apparatus housing;
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- wherein at least one of the vanes of the feed rotor is furcated into a plurality of tines, each of the tines of one of the vanes being spaced from an adjacent other one of the tines of the one of the vanes.
A system for grinding material in a flow of material moving through the system, the system comprising:
- a feed hopper having an interior for receiving material in the material flow to be processed;
- a feed apparatus configured to receive material in the flow of material from the feed hopper, the feed apparatus being configured to control a feed rate of the flow of material moving through the system;
- a roller mill apparatus configured to grind material of the flow of material passing through the roller mill apparatus;
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- a classifier apparatus configured to remove portions of the flow of material from other portions of the flow of material;
- wherein the classifier apparatus includes:
- a classifier housing defining a classifier housing interior and being elongated with a first end and a second end;
- a material support being positioned in the classifier housing interior and extending between the first and second ends of the classifier housing, at least a portion of the material support comprising a support grate having a plurality of holes formed therein through which material of a predetermined size or smaller is able to move through;
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- a scraper assembly for moving material entering the classifier apparatus along the material support;
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- wherein the scraper assembly includes:
- at least one scraper being movable across the material support;
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- a carrier structure carrying the at least one scraper across the material support and carrying the at least one scraper across a lower wall of the classifier housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.