Mini oven and personal pyrolysizer using same
OwnerMichael McNeilinventor
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Abstract
A method of extracting essential oil from plant matter for personal use includes positioning an amount of medicinal herb in a mini oven. A heating element is at least partially covered by a metallic heat exchanger and positioned in the mini oven. The medicinal herb is pyrolysized by energizing the heating element. Vaporized essential oil from the medicinal herb is moved out of the mini oven and toward the user. Oxygen is displaced from the mini oven responsive to decarboxylation of the medicinal herb, to inhibit combustion at elevated temperatures.
Claims20
A method of separating essential oil from a medicinal herb, comprising the steps of:
- opening a mini oven;
- positioning a personal amount of the medicinal herb in the mini oven;
- closing the mini oven;
- pyrolysizing the medicinal herb in the mini oven, which includes displacing oxygen from the mini oven with carbon dioxide responsive to decarboxylation of the medicinal herb;
- moving gasified essential oil out of the mini oven through an outlet orifice;
- condensing the gasified essential oil into an aerosol cloud;
- moving the aerosol cloud of condensed essential oil to a mouthpiece;
- and
- preparing the mini oven for a subsequent use by removing residue of the medicinal herb, which is mostly biochar, from the mini oven.
A personal essential oil extractor comprising:
- a container that defines a condensation chamber;
- a mini oven including a heating element positioned within an enclosure;
- wherein the heating element and the enclosure define a pyrolysizing cooking space that is fluidly connected to the condensation chamber exclusively through at least one outlet orifice;
- an extraction conduit with one end opening into the condensation chamber and an opposite end that opens through a mouthpiece;
- wherein gasified compounds from a medicinal herb generated responsive to pyrolysis in the pyrolysizing cooking space move through the outlet orifice, into the condensation chamber toward the extraction conduit responsive to suction at the mouthpiece;
- and
- wherein oxygen in the pyrolysizing cooking space is displaced by carbon dioxide responsive to decarboxylation of medicinal herb positioned in the pyrolysizing cooking space.
A personal essential oil extractor comprising:
- means, including a mini oven, for pyrolysizing a personal consumption quantity of a medicinal herb;
- means, including an enclosure of the mini oven, for displacing oxygen from the mini oven with carbon dioxide responsive to decarboxylation of the medicinal herb;
- means, including an outlet defined by the mini oven, for moving a gasified portion of the medicinal herb generated responsive to the pyrolysization out of the mini oven to a mouthpiece;
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- means, including a size of the outlet, for trapping biochar, which is a majority of a residue from the medicinal herb generated responsive to the pyrolysization, in the mini
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.