Patent ID: 11903410
Assignee: nan
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 20:
21. A method of making a smokable cannabis pod having a desired shape comprising the steps of:
providing a batch of cannabis containing cannabis flowers, stems, leaves and seeds;
grinding the cannabis to detach cannabis flowers from the stems, leaves and seeds;
removing the stems, leaves and seeds from the detached ground cannabis flowers;
after removing the stems, leaves and seeds, inspecting the cannabis batch containing the detached ground cannabis flowers to determine whether the flowers are moist enough, that is contain sufficient water, to be capable of being mechanically compressed without falling apart;
providing a compression system including forming trays and wherein said forming trays include a filling tray configured with a grid of pockets each of which is shaped to provide a smokable cannabis pod with a desired shape;
filling the pockets of said filling tray with moist enough ground cannabis flowers from said batch;
mechanically compressing the said moist enough ground cannabis flowers filling the pockets of said filling tray with said compression system to form a plurality of compressed cannabis pods having the desired shape for being smoked in the bowl of a smoking device and a porosity which allows air to flow through each pod when each pod is subsequently dried so that each pod burns evenly across and through the pod when it is smoked in the bowl of the smoking device; and,
drying the compressed cannabis pods while said pods are in the pockets of said filling tray to harden the pods so that the pods maintain the desired shape and so that cavities in the pods are created when the water in the pods evaporates during said drying step and wherein said cavities provide the dried pods with said porosity.