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US 2022/0111419 A1Published application
Plant material trimming device with cyclonic separator
AssigneeMosman Machinery Company, Inc.
InventorsANGEL RAMON TORRADO PEREZ, DANA ELIOT MOSMAN, DONALD MOSMAN
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a rotary drum trimming apparatus for trimming plants, in particular, buds and flowers, to remove unwanted plant material. More specifically, the present disclosure is directed to a rotary drum trimming apparatus that incorporates a separator for efficiently separating severed plant material from an airstream that carried the severed plant materials away from a rotary trimming drum
Claims20
A plant processing device for trimming plant material, comprising:
- a rotary trimmer having a rotating drum for trimming plant material passing through the interior of the rotating drum, the rotary trimmer at least partially disposed within a trimmer housing, wherein a longitudinal axis of the rotating drum defines a horizontal reference axis;
- a separator disposed vertically below the rotary trimmer and fluidly connected to the trimmer housing, the separator having:
- an outer cylindrical sidewall extending about a vertical axis that is transverse to the horizontal reference axis, the outer sidewall extending between an upper surface of the separator and a lower surface of the separator;
- a separator inlet extending through the upper surface to introduce an airstream, comprising air and severed plant material, proximate to an inside surface of the outer cylindrical sidewall, wherein movement of the airstream along the inside surface imparts a radial flow to the airstream;
- a severed material outlet extending through the lower surface of the separator proximate to a bottom edge of a portion of the outer cylindrical sidewall to capture severed plant material from the radial flow of the airstream;
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- a separator air outlet, configured to allow air of the airstream to exit from an axially central portion of the separator.
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A plant processing device for trimming plant material, comprising:
- a rotary trimmer having a rotating drum for trimming plant material passing through the interior of the rotating drum, the rotary trimmer at least partially disposed within a trimmer housing, wherein a longitudinal axis of the rotating drum defines a horizontal reference axis;
- a separator disposed vertically below the rotary trimmer and fluidly connected to the trimmer housing, the separator having:
- an outer sidewall, the outer sidewall extending between a top surface of the separator and a bottom surface of the separator to define an interior of the separator;
- a separator inlet extending through one of the outer sidewall and the top surface to introduce an airstream, comprising air and severed plant material, to the interior of the separator, wherein movement of the airstream within the interior of the separator imparts a change in direction to the airstream;
- a severed material outlet extending through one of the outer sidewall and the bottom surface of the separator to capture severed plant material from the airstream;
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- a separator air outlet, configured to allow air of the airstream to exit from the interior of the separator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.