Herb Grinder
OwnerBrian Seckel, Jesse Gruberinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to devices and methods for grinding, storing, and dispensing plant materials such as herbs, flowers, plants, seeds, and leaves, including legal cannabis, coffee, tea, and tobacco, and methods of manufacturing such devices. A modular grinder that can be assembled into multiple configurations and grinds, stores, and dispenses ground plant material is provided. Methods of grinding, storing, and dispensing plant material that employ the modular grinder are provided.
Claims33
A grinder to grind, store and dispense plant materials, the plant materials comprising dried herbs, spices, flowers, seeds, and leaves;
- wherein the grinder is configured for manual modular assembly of parts that are configured to reversibly connect into multiple configurations that include a grinding configuration and a storage configuration;
- wherein the parts comprise a top piece, multiple middle sections, and a bottom point;
- wherein the top piece, each middle section, and the bottom point are configured to connect to one or more other section with reversible connections that allow for assembly into the multiple configurations;
- wherein the top piece is configured to reversibly connect to one or more middle section, and one or more middle section is configured to connect to the bottom point;
- wherein the middle sections comprise a set of grind teeth that separates into top and bottom grind teeth, a grinder reservoir, a storage reservoir, and a dispense mechanism;
- wherein the grinding configuration comprises a set of grind teeth, and the storage configuration excludes one or more section having grind teeth, and the excluded one or more section comprises a section with top grind teeth, and a section with bottom grind teeth;
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- wherein the top piece is configured to close an opening at the top of the grinder when reversibly connected to the top of one or more of grinder reservoir and storage reservoir in the storage configuration.
A method of manufacturing a grinder that comprises forming substantially cylindrical parts or sections of a modular grinder body, wherein one or more part or section is made of machined metal, and formed from round bar stock by subtractive manufacturing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.