Patent ID: 9669326
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: B01D

Claim:
1. A method of capturing volatile components from a vaporizing plant material in a vapor trapping media comprising the steps of: (a) loading a quantity of the plant material into a vaporizer; (b) removably attaching a vapor trap to the vaporizer, wherein the step of removably attaching the vapor trap to the vaporizer comprises attaching the vapor trap such that the vapor flow passes from the vaporizer outlet, through the vapor inlet connected to the vaporizer outlet by the adaptor and into the vapor trap reservoir, the vapor flow passing through and contacting the vapor trapping media, the vapor flow exiting the vapor trap from the vapor outlet after the step of passing through and contacting the vapor trapping media; (c) loading a quantity of the vapor trapping media into the reservoir the vapor trapping media being contained in the reservoir by the reservoir and the first and second containers, wherein the quantity of the vapor trapping media based on a chemical property of the volatile component of the vaporizing material desired to be captured; (d) continuously heating a quantity of air and continuously passing the quantity of air past the plant material within the vaporizer; wherein the passing of heated air causes a volatile component of the plant material to vaporize, forming a vapor, the vapor mixing with the quantity of air to form a vapor flow containing the volatile component, the vapor flow exiting the vaporizer and passing into the vapor inlet of the vapor trap; (e) chilling the vapor trapping media by using a chiller connected to the vapor trap reservoir the chiller decreasing a temperature of the vapor trapping media; (f) capturing the vaporized volatile component by the vapor trapping media, the step of capturing comprising at least one of condensation, absorption and adsorption of the volatile component by the vapor trapping media; (g) deactivating the vaporizer after a period sufficient to vaporize the volatile component from the plant material; and (h) removing the vapor trapping media comprising the volatile component from the reservoir.