Grinder stemmer and related methodologies
OwnerCullen Raichartinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a continuous feed commercial cannabis bud grinder and stemmer that enables operations to control the grinds size, remove stems from the buds, and avoid damage to the bud's trichomes. In a preferred embodiment, raw material (buds) are top loaded into a grinding assembly defined by a motor driven blade that tumbles or sweeps the raw material such that the buds are destemmed and bud grinds are forced through a perforated insert. Suitably, grinds fall from the perforated insert into a secondary filtering process where the grinds can be filtered by size before output to a user.
Claims16
A grinder assembly comprising:
- a hopper;
- a tubular grinding assembly with an inlet in communication with the hopper, said grinding assembly featuring blades with a pinch face and an open face, said blades also including an axel that is coupled to the drive of a motor for turning the blades within the tubular grinding assembly;
- a perforated insert with perforations wherein a grind is provided through a perforation after a bud is pinched between the perforated insert and the pinch face;
- a sifting frame that is provided under the perforated insert and tubular grinding assembly, where the sifting frame is defined by a perforated metal tray;
- a base that includes a jack and a pivot point for the sifting frame and tubular grinding assembly, wherein the jack is configured to move the sifting frame and tubular grinding assembly into a pitched angle relative to a foot of the base.
A method of grinding plant material via a grinder assembly comprising the steps of:
- loading the material in a hopper that is in communication with an inlet of a tubular grinding assembly, said grinding assembly featuring blades with a pinch face and an open face, said blades also including an axel that is coupled to the drive of a motor for turning the blades within the tubular grinding assembly;
- jacking the tubular grinding assembly around a pivot on a base to a pitched angle of incline relative to a foot of the base such that the tubular grinding assembly features a slope;
- ensuring that the material is deposited into a perforated insert;
- turning the blades at a rate of less than one revolution per second within the tubular grinding assembly such that the materials are tumbled, such that the materials fall down the slope of the tubular grinding assembly, and such that a grind is provided through a perforation of the perforated insert after a bud is pinched between the perforated insert and the pinch face;
- and,
- collecting the grind on a sifting frame defined by a perforated metal tray.
A method of grinding plant material, comprising:
- loading plant material into a hopper connected to a tubular grinding assembly;
- adjusting the tubular grinding assembly to a pitched angle using a jack and pivot point on a base;
- rotating blades within the tubular grinding assembly;
- tumbling the plant material down a slope created by the pitched angle of the tubular grinding assembly;
- grinding the plant material between the blades and a perforated insert within the tubular grinding assembly;
- and
- collecting ground material that passes through perforations in the perforated insert.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.