Extruded Hashish Product Manufacturing Process
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Solution Overview
Problem
The batch-like approach to manufacturing hashish products is labor-intensive, reduces volume throughput, and negatively affects overall efficiency, leading to increased costs and production complexity due to the need for multiple heat and pressing steps, which can result in overcooking and inconsistent product quality.
Innovation Solution
A process involving pre-treating isolated cannabis trichomes with a cannabis oil layer, followed by mixing under specific conditions to form a resinous mixture, and then extruding through a die to produce a cohesive hashish product, avoiding the need for multiple heat and pressing steps and allowing for better control over textural consistency and pliability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a batch-like mechanical pressing approach is used to manufacture hashish products, then the isolated trichomes can be pressed into cohesive mass, but the process becomes labor-intensive, reduces volume throughput, and negatively affects overall efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the traditional mechanical pressing system with an extrusion-based system. The extruder uses a screw mechanism to continuously feed and compress the hashish mixture through a die, eliminating the need for manual or batch mechanical pressing operations. This substitution enables continuous production, significantly increasing volume throughput while reducing labor intensity.
Solution Approach 2:
The extrusion process operates continuously, with the screw mechanism constantly feeding and compressing the hashish mixture through the die. This continuous operation eliminates the start-stop nature of batch pressing, maintaining productive action throughout the manufacturing process and significantly improving overall efficiency and throughput.
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple heat and pressing steps are applied to ensure cohesiveness, then the hashish product achieves desired consistency, but the production complexity increases and overcooking may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the heating and pressing functions into a single integrated extrusion process. The extruder simultaneously applies heat to decarboxylate cannabinoids and applies mechanical compression to form the cohesive hashish product in one continuous operation. This merging eliminates the need for separate heating and pressing steps, reducing production complexity while maintaining product consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The extrusion process performs preliminary decarboxylation and forming actions in sequence within the same equipment. The material is heated and compressed simultaneously during extrusion, ensuring proper cannabinoid activation and product consistency are achieved before the material exits the die, eliminating the need for subsequent processing steps.
3Reliability
If heat is applied during or after pressing to release resin and decarboxylate cannabinoids, then the hashish product achieves desired potency, but the manufacturing time increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The extrusion process maintains continuous heating and compression action, ensuring decarboxylation and resin release occur throughout the entire manufacturing process rather than requiring separate post-processing heating steps. This continuous action ensures consistent cannabinoid potency while minimizing total manufacturing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the decarboxylation function with the forming function in the single extrusion process. The heat applied during extrusion simultaneously decarboxylates cannabinoids and facilitates resin release, while the mechanical compression forms the cohesive product structure. This combination eliminates the need for separate heating steps, reducing manufacturing time while ensuring reliable cannabinoid potency.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This process enhances manufacturing efficiency, reduces quality failures, and allows for the production of uniform and consistent hashish products with customizable properties, maintaining cannabinoid potency and stability over time, while minimizing waste and operational costs.
Implementation Method 1
heat may be applied to the pressed trichomes after the pressing step for substantially the same purposes... to decarboxylate the cannabinoids (activate the acid form of the cannabinoids)
Implementation Method 2
providing isolated cannabis trichomes pre-treated to comprise a cannabis oil layer on at least a portion of a surface thereof
Implementation Method 3
obtain a cohesive mass of the isolated cannabis trichomes
Implementation Method 4
retrieving at least a portion of the resinous mixture through an extrusion die to obtain the hashish product comprising a cohesive mass
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to hashish products and processes for manufacturing same. The processes may comprise mixing pre-treated isolated cannabis trichomes under conditions sufficient to obtain a resinous mixture and retrieving at least a portion of the resinous mixture through an extrusion die. The hashish product may comprise a not negligible content in one or more acid form of one or more cannabinoid(s).