Patent ID: 7128109

Claim:
An essential oil reclaim apparatus for continuous extraction of essential oil from coniferous tree needles, said apparatus comprising: conveyor means, for moving in a continuous fashion a number of felled coniferous tree parts from a felled tree intake loading area, through a processing area, and toward a tree discharge outlet; an impacting unit, mounted into said processing area for shaking the trees for releasing branches and needles thereof from the felled coniferous tree; first screen means, mounted beneath said impacting unit for segregating separate branches from needles falling down from said impacting unit; a compression unit, defining a main elongated tubular body having: a) a needle intake, mounted beneath said first screen means for collecting the needles segregated by said first screen means; b) a liquid outlet, mounted spacedly from said needle intake; c) compression means acting inside said tubular body and extending between said needle intake and said essential oil outlet for continuously compressing the needles wherein a liquid phase of needles is mechanically extracted from the solid needle parts to flow as a liquid inside the tubular body and to escape said tubular body through said liquid outlet of the tubular body; wherein reclaim of liquid essential oil from the tree needles may be obtained from said liquid phase of needles.