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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2000
David W. Pate, Amsterdam, NL;
Hortapharm B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
The present invention is a vaporizer apparatus ( ) and method for uniformly extracting active ingredients of specimen of crude natural product, or inert particulate matrix impregnated with volatile substances without pyrolysis which uses hot air ( ), or a heated inert gas stream to volatilize the specimen. The heated air or gas in introduced from below (from either a hot air gun or a high-pressure tank connected to a heat exchanger), and ascends through in most embodiments through a permeable support structure ( ) (e.g., fritted glass disk, etc.) subsequently causing specimen particules disposed on the permeable support structure to be suspended within the confines of an isolation chamber ( ).