Patent ID: 11950626
Assignee: SWISHER INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of uniformly filling natural consumables into flower cartridges for use with a heat-not-burn heating device, comprising:
loading a plurality of flower cartridges within a cartridge tray assembly;
forming a filling assembly by positioning the cartridge tray assembly beneath a filling tray;
placing a quantity of natural consumables in the filling tray;
distributing the natural consumables into a plurality of openings of the filling tray;
forming a tamping assembly by placing the filling assembly into a press with a tamping plate;
operating the press so that the tamping plate is pressed into the filling assembly for a predetermined depth, after which the plate is retracted;
removing the cartridge tray assembly from the tamping assembly;
disassembling the cartridge tray assembly to permit unloading of the plurality of flower cartridges;
wherein the tamping plate is configured to compress the natural consumables to a uniform density within the flower cartridges;
wherein the plurality of flower cartridges to be filled are stacked within the cartridge tray assembly such that each cartridge is in contact with at least one other cartridge;
wherein contacting cartridges are held in a position by compressive forces exerted by the cartridge tray assembly from each side of the assembly facing the walls of the cartridges; and
wherein the position in which the contacting cartridges are held aligns the openings in the filling tray with the openings of the cartridges.