APPARATUS AND METHOD TO MAKE CANNABIS AND/OR CANNABIS EXTRACT AND/OR CANNABIS COMPONENT ENHANCED EDIBLE PRODUCTS

APPAREIL ET METHODE DE FABRICATION DE PRODUITS COMESTIBLES RENFERMANT DU CANNABIS OU UN EXTRAIT DE CANNABIS OU UNE COMPOSANTE DE CANNABIS

English Abstract

The present invention provides self-contained hot and/or cold edible product
making apparatus
of household, commercial or industrial use having a body comprising one or a
plurality of
chambers that may be used for receiving, processing or mixing the ingredients
for the purpose
of creating a cannabis and/or cannabis extract and/or cannabis component
enhanced hot or
cold edible product and the method of making such products.

Claims

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A self-contained hot and/or cold edible product making apparatus of
household, commercial
or industrial use having a body comprising one or a plurality of chambers that
may be used for
receiving, processing or mixing the ingredients for the purpose of creating a
cannabis enhanced
and/or cannabis extract enhanced and/or cannabis component enhanced hot or
cold edible
product and the method of making such products.
2. The said apparatus and method from claim 1 may be equipped with built-in
means for
controlled cooling and/or heating of the interior of said chambers for the
purpose of creating a
cannabis enhanced and/or cannabis extract enhanced and/or cannabis component
enhanced
edible product.
3. The said apparatus and method from claims 1 and 2 that may be equipped with
means of
dosing the amount of cannabis and/or cannabis extracts and/or cannabis
components in edible
products.
4. The said apparatus and method from claims 1,2 and 3 where the dosing of the
amount
and/or concentration of cannabis and/or cannabis product and/or cannabis
component is
predetermined using a dosing means container as for example one or a multitude
of capsules,
envelopes, bags, pills, containers, vials, bottles.
5. The said apparatus and method from claims 1, 2, 3 and 4 that maybe used to
make cannabis
and/or cannabis extract and/or cannabis component enhanced hot edible
products.
6. The said apparatus and method from claim 5 where the said edible product
may be tea.
7. The said apparatus and method from claim 5 where the said edible product
may be café or
hot chocolate.
8. The said apparatus and method from claims 1, 2, 3 and 4 where the said
edible product may
be edible baked products as for example cookies, brownies, muffins, cupcakes
or pastries.
9. The said apparatus and method from claims 1, 2, 3 and 4 where the edible
product may be
bread or sweet bread, pasta, pizza or sauce.
10. The said apparatus and method from claims 1, 2, 3 and 4 where the edible
product may be
chocolate, fudge or candy.
11. The said apparatus and method from claims 1, 2, 3 and 4 that maybe used to
make cannabis
and/or cannabis extract and/or cannabis component enhanced cold edible
products.

12. The said apparatus and method from claim 11 where the edible product may
be ice cream
or frozen yoghurt.
13. The said apparatus from claim 11 where the edible product may be smoothies
or icy drinks.
14. The said apparatus from claims 1, 2, 3 and 4 where the edible product may
be butter, milk,
dairy or soy products.
15. A self-contained apparatus for making a cannabis and/or cannabis extract
and/or cannabis
component enhanced edible product from a plurality of ingredients there for
comprising at
least a mixing chamber, refrigeration means for controllably cooling the
interior of said
chamber and/or a heating means for controllably heating the said chamber and a
dosing means
for controllably dosing cannabis infused edible products.
16. An apparatus in accordance with claims 1 to 15, wherein said apparatus
comprises a self-
contained portable household type apparatus.
17. A method to make a cannabis and/or cannabis extract and/or cannabis
component edible
product using a self-contained apparatus described in claims 1 to 16.
18. A self-contained apparatus and method as in claims 1 to 17 to make said
enhanced edible
product where the cannabis extract or cannabis component is produced fresh
from cannabis
using a means inside the apparatus.
19. A preferred embodiment of invention would consist of a mixing chamber
where the
cannabis and/or cannabis extract and/or cannabis component situated in a
previously dosed
capsule or container would be mixed with other components and cooled down to
make a
cannabis enhanced ice cream or cold drink.
20. Another preferred embodiment of invention would consist of at least a
mixing chamber
where the cannabis and /or cannabis extract and/or cannabis component situated
in a
previously dosed capsule or bag would be mixed with other components and
heated up to
produce a cannabis enhanced tea, café, hot chocolate or hot drink.
21. Another preferred embodiment of invention would be an apparatus as
described in claims 1
to 20 that utilize an one time use dosing means container that was pre-
packaged and
predetermined by a cannabis, cannabis extract or cannabis component supplier
mostly but not
necessarily in the form of a capsule, bag, envelope, vial or bottle.
22. An apparatus as in claim 21 where the content of the cannabis, cannabis
concentrate or
cannabis component is predetermined and posted on the pre-packaged dosing
means to allow

making said edible products of different strengths or making repeated said
edible products of
same strength.
23. An apparatus and method as described in the drawings figure 1, figure 2
and description
part of this invention.
24. An apparatus and method to enhance edible products as described in claims
1 through 23
where the enhancing product is not cannabis but a similar enhancer with active
ingredients that
may be restricted under the law.

Description

Description of the embodiment of invention
Cannabis and/or its components may be used to enhance edible products to put
to use the
effects of these components.
Cannabis enhanced edible products are a special case of edible products that
require exact
preparation methods and apparatus to be employed due to the active components
found in
cannabis that may be regulated by law.
The existing cannabis enhanced edible products are very limited in number and
have cannabis
components varying in concentration and are presently made mostly by applying
heath and/or
cold to a mixture consisting of non-cannabis ingredients and cannabis that may
be dosed into
the mix using conventional baking, brewing or chilling apparatus and methods.
Dosing of
cannabis is mostly manual and not accurate resulting in products that have
great variations in
cannabis components in the finished products.
The object of this invention is to present a method and apparatus that
consistently and reliably
makes a greater variety of cannabis enhanced hot or cold edible products that
follow a strict
recipe with a set and known concentration of cannabis and/or cannabis
components in the
finished product that conform to limits that may be set by law. The invention
makes possible
the use of cannabis extracts and/or cannabis component to be incorporated in
cold or hot
edible products.
In a preferred embodiment and method to make cannabis enhanced edible products
as
presented in Figure 1, the invention comprises a housing (1) that may have
built-in means for
controlled cooling and/or heating of the interior (2) of a processing or
mixing chamber (3) and
may have a dosing means (4) for the cannabis and/or cannabis extract and/or
cannabis
component (12) that may be connected to the said chamber (3). The means (4)
may be placed
on top of, bottom or any side of the chamber (3). The means (2) may be placed
on one side or
multiple sides of the chamber (3).
The chamber (3) may open to outside through a access means to allow placing,
processing or
mixing components (5) and may have a means to remove the processed or mixed
components
after the process is done (6). Also may or may not connect to means to store
the processed or
mixed components for other processing or consumption (7) mainly in the form of
containers,
bowls, cups, trays.
The means (4) to dose the cannabis and/or cannabis extract and/or cannabis
component (12)
may open to outside to allow placement of said (12) through a means (8). Once
these placed
inside, means (4) will provide the dose necessary for making the cannabis
enhanced mix. Also
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the means (4) may have means to promote or enhance the extraction of active
components of
(12) preferably in the form of a separate controlled enhancing device (9).
The mixing chamber (3) may or may not include a mixing mechanism (10) for the
purpose of
providing a better mixing of all the edible products components.
In another embodiment the mixing mechanism (10) may be removable from the
mixing
chamber (3).
After the mixing of components in the chamber (3) the means (2) will heat or
cool the mixture
and may make a hot or cold edible cannabis enhanced product.
The means (4) may exactly dose the active components from the cannabis and/or
cannabis
extract and/or cannabis components (12) placed directly inside means (4) or
may use
predetermined amounts of a known concentration of (12) placed in a one time or
multi use
dosing means container (11) that may be placed in the means (4). The means
(11) may be
totally or partially porous and/or perforated or made in such a way to allow
the cannabis
components (12) to be enhanced into the product mix in chamber (3). The dosing
means
container (11) may be in the form of one or more capsule, pill, bag, envelope,
vial, bottle, jar,
package. The dosing means container (11) may contain along cannabis components
(12) other
ingredients as required by the recipe for the product.
In a particular case Figure 1 may represent a cannabis enhanced ice cream or
frozen drink
apparatus where the housing (1) contains the cooling means (2) that cool the
inside of the
processing chamber (3) to a temperature that is favourable to make ice cream
or frozen drinks.
The non-cannabis ingredients of the ice cream or frozen drinks are placed in
chamber (3)
through the means (5) and are removed after processing through product exit
means (6).
The cannabis ingredients of the ice cream or frozen drink are dosed to strict
specifications by
the dosing means (4). The cannabis and/or cannabis extract and/or cannabis
component (12)
may be placed directly into dosing means (4) and the means (4) provides the
required amount
of (12) or in another embodiment the required amount of (12) is predetermined
in a dosing
means container, capsule, pill or bag (11) placed into the dosing means (4)
through an access
means (8). The dosing means container (11) may contain along cannabis
components (12) other
ingredients as required by the recipe for the product. The dosing means
container, capsule or
bag (11) may be of multiple use and made in a way and out of a material to
make infusion
and/or reuse possible and could be prior art. The dosing means (4) may have a
means to extract
or enhance the extraction of cannabis components from (12) in the form a means
(9) that in
most cases may be a controlled heating means.
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The ingredients may be mixed together by the mixing means (10) and when the
ice cream or
frozen drink is ready may be stored or consumed from a storing means (7) in
the form of
container, bowl, cup, cone or tray. These storing means (7) may be of edible
material.
The same method and apparatus from Figure 1 can be used to make cannabis
enhanced bread,
sweet bread or brownies in a particular embodiment of invention where the
means (2) provide
heating of the ingredients in the chamber (3). In another embodiment of the
invention the
means (2) provide the baking of the bread, sweet bread or brownies inside the
chamber (3) and
the means of placing the components (5) may be used to remove the finished
product having a
size to satisfy this operation.
The method and apparatus in Figure 1 may be used to make cannabis enhanced
butter, or
cookies or chocolate, or fudge, or candies or other enhanced edible products.
In another preferred embodiment as presented in Figure 2, it is presented
another
configuration of the invention and another method to make hot or cold cannabis
enhanced
edible products.
The apparatus comprises a housing (1) that may incorporate the heating and/or
cooling means
(2) and may have at least one processing chamber for non-cannabis components
(3) and a
dosing means (4) for the cannabis and/or cannabis extract and/or cannabis
component (12).
The non-cannabis components may be introduced into the chamber (3) through a
means (5)
that in one particular case may have a means to dose the non-cannabis
ingredients and may be
of a size as to allow storage of said components before processing.
The said non-cannabis ingredients may be heated or cooled according to the
recipe and may
use a means (8) to pass through cannabis dosing means (4) that contains the
cannabis and/or
cannabis extract and/or cannabis component (12). The dosing means (4) may
contain a
cannabis component enhancing means (9) that in some embodiments through
heating may
enhance the cannabis components. In a particular case the cannabis components
(12) are
predetermined in quantity and concentration inside a dosing means container
(11) that may be
for example a container, capsule, pill, envelope or bag that may be of single
use or multiple
uses. The means (11) may be totally or partially porous and/or perforated or
made in such a
way to allow the cannabis components (12) to become mixed with the other
components
passing through the means (4). The dosing means container (11) may contain
along cannabis
components (12) other ingredients as required by the recipe for the product.
The cannabis enhanced edible product may be delivered through a controlled
finished product
exit means (6) into a container for storage (7).
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This method and apparatus as described in Figure 2 may be used to produce
cannabis enhanced
café, tea, hot chocolate or other enhanced drinks or other enhanced edible
products.
The invention described therein is not limited only to cannabis to enhance
edible products and
may use any other component that requires similar dosing and preparation
method to create
enhanced edible products.
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Representative Drawing