Method and apparatus for processing herbaceous plant materials including the cannabis plant
OwnerFrederick R. Ferriinventor
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Abstract
A method and associated system of treating a plant material consisting essentially of the plant cannabis in order to extract cannabinoids in liquid form from the plant material. The method includes heating the plant material; drying the plant material; grinding the dried plant material into a powder form; marinating the dried plant powder in a solvent for a predetermined time period to form a marinated mixture; shaking and heating the marinated mixture; filtering the mixture so that only a liquid part of the mixture remains; and evaporating from the liquid the solvent in order to provide the cannabinoid liquid extract.
Claims16
A method of treating a Cannabis plant material to obtain a cannabinoid-enriched extract, said method comprising the steps of:
- initially freezing the plant material;
- heating the initially frozen plant material to cause decarboxylation of the cannabinoids therein;
- drying the heated plant material;
- grinding the dried plant material into a powder form;
- soaking the dried plant material in a solvent for a predetermined time period to form a soaked mixture;
- subsequently freezing the soaked mixture;
- shaking and heating the subsequently frozen soaked mixture by means of a heated shaker;
- filtering the shaken and heated mixture so that only a liquid portion of the mixture remains;
- evaporating the solvent from the liquid portion to obtain said cannabinoid-enriched extract.
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