Open system cryo tumble trimmer
OwnerThomas Bruggemanninventor
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Abstract
A tumble trimmer system having a tumbler barrel with a perforated axle adapted for introducing a freezing agent such as liquid carbon dioxide or other liquefied gas adapted to flash freeze the plant material when infused into the mesh tumbler barrel, the mesh tumbler barrel adapted with mesh netting or screening for trimming and/or separating plant material enclosed therein, and with an open funnel or chute positioned below the tumbler barrel adapted to catch and direct trimmed and/or separated plant material exiting the tumbler barrel into a bin or container positioned under the funnel or chute, wherein the perforated axle comprises a plurality of perforations positioned around a circumference of and along an entire length of the axle.
Claims19
A tumbler barrel adapted to trim and/or separate plant material, the tumbler barrel comprising:
- an axle extending between a first and a second barrel end cap, the axle having a closed end at the second end cap;
- side material extending between the first and second end caps so as to capture the plant material to be trimmed and/or separated within an interior space bounded by the first and second end caps and side material, the side material comprising a mesh net or screen adapted to trim and/or separate portions of the plant material as the plant material is tumbled about the axle;
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- a plurality of perforations residing along the axle between the first and second end caps, each of the plurality of perforations comprising a hole adapted to permit a freezing agent to flow into the interior space within the barrel, and each hole spaced apart from one another along the axle between the first and second end caps and around a circumference of the axle so as to distribute the freezing agent throughout the interior space within the barrel when the freezing agent flows from each of the plurality of perforations, wherein a funnel or chute is positioned gravitationally below the tumbler barrel so as to catch and direct portions of the plant material falling through the mesh net or screen of the tumbler barrel, the funnel or chute having a bottom opening, the bottom opening being open to an area under the bottom opening, wherein all of the freezing agent introduced in the axle exits the axle via the plurality of perforations to the interior space, and at least some of the freezing agent at the interior space flows through the bottom opening.
A tumble trimmer system comprising a tumble trimmer with a perforated axle adapted to infuse a freezing agent into a mesh tumbler barrel, the perforated axle having a closed end, the mesh tumbler barrel adapted for trimming and/or separating plant material enclosed therein, and with an open funnel or chute positioned below the tumbler barrel adapted to catch and direct trimmed and/or separated plant material exiting the tumbler barrel into a bin or container positioned under the funnel or chute, wherein the perforated axle comprises a plurality of perforations positioned around a circumference of and along a length of the axle, the open funnel or chute having a bottom opening, the bottom opening being open to an area under the bottom opening, wherein all of the freezing agent introduced in the axle exits the axle via the plurality of perforations to an interior space of the mesh tumbler barrel, and at least some of the freezing agent at the interior space flows through the bottom opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.