Essential element extractor
OwnerAndrew D. Hospodorinventor
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Abstract
A Mobile Extractor for extracting essential elements from plant material and for transporting low concentrations of essential elements in a solution of solvent includes a clean tank, a hopper, one or more pumps, a plurality of valves, and a dirty tank. Plant material may be soaked or rinsed with a solvent that extracts essential elements from the plant material where the solvent washes the essential elements from the plant material into a dirty tank. When the operation is complete the dirty tank will contain a solution of solvent infused with essential elements from the plant material. The best mode of the invention extracts cannabinoid or cannabis related essential elements from raw cannabis plant material and stores it in a solvent bath. The best mode pump or pumps used is one or more vacuum pumps.
Claims15
An extractor configured to extract and then store a solution containing a low concentration of cannabinoids or cannabis essential elements per unit volume of a solvent in a dirty tank, said extractor comprising a clean tank, a hopper, a dirty tank, cannabis plant material, solvent, one or more pumps, and an electronic control system in communication with one or more liquid level sensors wherein at least one of said one or more liquid level sensors measure the liquid level of solvent in said hopper and wherein:
- a. said hopper configured to accept said cannabis plant material, said hopper in controlled fluid communication with said clean tank;
- b. said dirty tank in controlled fluid communication with said hopper;
- c. said electronic control system configured to control the flow of solvent or to block the flow of solvent from said clean tank to said hopper, from said hopper to said dirty tank, or from said dirty tank to said hopper;
- said electronic control system configured to block the flow of solvent from said clean tank to said hopper, or from said dirty tank to said hopper when said liquid level sensor communicates to said electronic control system that said hopper has an excessive of solvent;
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- d. said dirty tank or said extractor configured to be transported by or on a vehicle wherein said dirty tank contains said solution of solvent and a low concentration of cannabinoids or medicinal cannabis compounds per unit volume of said solvent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.