The cone - shaped hopper holds dry mixes and powdered product and feeds them into a variety of plastic (PPE) film packages that are heat sealed and can pack materials weighing up to 400g.
Although they are very small in size (~ 10 km in diameter) they are extremely dense, packing in around the mass of 1.5 suns - in fact a teaspoon of material from a neutron star would weigh approximately 10 million tonnes!