Patent Document ID: 10065195
Application ID: 15184941
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A vegetation material byproduct harvesting apparatus suitable for expeditiously extracting vegetation and other plant byproducts from vegetation material through a flash freezing and dry mechanical agitation process and selectively harvesting byproducts based on size and composition of the byproducts, the apparatus comprising: an apparatus frame; an extraction assembly mount frame pivotally carried by the apparatus frame; an extraction assembly including: a container carried by the extraction assembly mount frame at a first end of the extraction assembly, the container suitably sized and configured to receive a vegetation material; an agitation motor mechanically engaging the container to agitate and dislodge a byproduct from the vegetation material; at least one classifier carried by the container, the at least one classifier having a classifier mesh with a plurality of mesh openings; a collection pan carried by the at least one classifier at a second end of the extraction assembly; at least one assembly securing mechanism engaging the container and the collection pan, the at least one assembly securing mechanism releasably securing the collection pan and the at least one classifier on the container; and a carbon dioxide vessel, the carbon dioxide vessel configured to enable containment of a carbon dioxide; a conveyor, the conveyor configured to carry the carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide vessel to the container to flash-freeze the vegetation material in the container; a size adjustable nozzle, the size adjustable nozzle disposed between the conveyor and the container, the size adjustable nozzle configured to regulate the flow of the carbon dioxide from the conveyor to the container, the size adjustable nozzle further configured to have adjustable dimensions; and a regulator, the regulator configured to regulate the flow of the carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide vessel to the container, whereby the size adjustable nozzle and the regulator work in conjunction to regulate a flow rate and a quantity of the carbon dioxide being carried to the container.