Patent Application
20200406302
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The disclosure and prior art relates to sifters and more particularly pertains to a new sifter for sorting plant buds by size.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a frame having a front perimeter, a back perimeter, an upper perimeter, a lower perimeter, a left perimeter, and a right perimeter. The frame has a top divider perimeter and a bottom divider perimeter each lying in a plane parallel with a plane of the upper perimeter. A set of drawers each have a front side separated from a back side, a left side separated from a right side, a bottom side, and an open top side forming a drawer cavity. An inner lip is coupled to each of the front side, the left side, the back side, and the right side within the drawer cavity. A handle is coupled to the front side. The set of drawers comprises a top drawer, a middle drawer, and a bottom drawer. The top drawer is slidably engageable with the frame between the top divider perimeter and the upper perimeter. The middle drawer is slidably engageable with the frame between the bottom divider perimeter and the top divider perimeter. The bottom drawer is slidably engageable with the frame between the bottom divider perimeter and the lower perimeter. A set of sifter grates each has a grate perimeter selectively engageable with the inner lip of each of the drawers and a grate body coupled within the grate perimeter. The set of sifter grates comprises a top grate, a middle grate, and a bottom grate for each of the top drawer, the middle drawer, and the bottom drawer, respectively. The grate body of the bottom grate is finer than the grate body of the middle grate. The grate body of the middle grate is finer than the grate body of the top grate. The top grate, the middle grate, and the bottom grate are configured to sort progressively smaller plant buds into the top drawer, the middle drawer, and the bottom drawer, respectively.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The set of drawers 40 comprises a top drawer 60, a middle drawer 62, and a bottom drawer 64. The top drawer 60 is slidably engageable with the frame 12 between the top divider perimeter 26 and the upper perimeter 18. The middle drawer 62 is slidably engageable with the frame 12 between the bottom divider perimeter 28 and the top divider perimeter 26. The bottom drawer 64 is slidably engageable with the frame 12 between the bottom divider perimeter 28 and the lower perimeter 20. Each of a set of sifter grates 66 has a grate perimeter 68 selectively engageable with the inner lip 56 of each of the drawers 40 and a grate body 70 coupled within the grate perimeter 68. The set of sifter grates 66 comprises a top grate 72, a middle grate 74, and a bottom grate 76 for each of the top drawer 60, the middle drawer 62, and the bottom drawer 64, respectively. The grate body 70 of the bottom grate 76 is finer than the grate body 70 of the middle grate 74. The grate body 70 of the middle grate 74 is finer than the grate body 70 of the top grate 72. The grate body 70 of the top grate 72 comprises a plurality of parallel rods 78. The grate body 70 of the middle grate 74 comprises a middle sheet 80 having a plurality of middle apertures 82 extending therethrough. The grate body 70 of the bottom grate 76 comprises a bottom sheet 84 having a plurality of bottom apertures 86 extending therethrough. Each of the plurality of bottom apertures 86 has a diameter smaller than a diameter of each of the plurality of middle apertures 82. The top grate 72, the middle grate 74, and the bottom grate 76 are configured to sort progressively smaller plant buds into the top drawer 60, the middle drawer 62, and the bottom drawer 64, respectively.
In use, the user places plant buds into the top drawer 60 on the top grate 72. The buds that pass through the top grate 72 are placed into the middle drawer 62 onto the middle grate 74. The buds that pass through the middle grate 74 are then placed into the bottom drawer 64 onto the bottom grate 76. The bottom grate 76 then sifts out the smallest particles into the bottom drawer 64.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
