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

Claim 21:
22. A tamping assembly for uniformly filling natural consumables into flower cartridges for use with a heat-not-burn heating device, comprising:
a tamping plate;
a filling tray with a plurality of openings;
a cartridge tray assembly;
a base plate;
wherein the cartridge tray assembly is configured to hold the plurality of flower cartridges to be filled such that each cartridge is in contact with at least one other cartridge and the 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.