Animal husbandry – Material for absorbing moisture from waste product – Having clay component
Patent
1997-08-13
1998-11-17
Swiatek, Robert P.
Animal husbandry
Material for absorbing moisture from waste product
Having clay component
A01K 1015
Patent
active
058362622
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a material for treating an excretion from an animal such as livestock and pets, and a process for producing the same. Particularly, the present invention relates to a cat sand for treating an excretion from a cat and a process for producing the same.
BACKGROUND ART
An animal excretion treating material such as a cat sand is used for excretion of a livestock and a pet such as cat. Granules such as sand, zeolite, bentonite or pulp are used as such animal excretion treating material used for the excretion provided by the pet. However, these animal excretion treating materials are insufficient in water-absorbing function as an excretion treating material. For this reason, granules such as a blend produced by mixing sand, pulp, bentonite or the like into a chemically-untreated natural organic substance such as grass, chaff, orange peel, peanut hull, peat moss and wood flour, and further mixing a highly water-absorbable resin and a binder to the resulting mixture, have been used as an animal excretion treating material (see Japanese Patent Publication No. 3-46089).
Each of these animal excretion treating materials is used to treat an excretion such as urine from a livestock or a pet by absorption. However, the absorbed excretion permeates an excretion treating material layer and hence, the excretion is spread. It is impossible to discard the excretion-absorbed material portion at every time. Thereupon, the animal excretion treating material is used until the entire material absorbs the excretion, but there is a problem that a urine odor is generated. In this respect, bentonite particles are wet by urine or the like to adhere to one another and hence, the mass of the particles adhered to one another by urine can be discarded at every time of excretion. Therefore, the bentonite particles have been used relatively by preference.
However, the bentonite particles are not combustible and hence, it is difficult to burn up the bentonite particles. In addition, the amount of bentonite particles discarded at one excretion is large, and even in this respect, the bentonite particles are accompanied by a problem.
The present invention aims for solving the problems concerning the generation of the urine odor and the discarding of the conventional animal excretion treating material.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an animal excretion treating material, which is combustible and can be burnt up after being used, and the particles are consumed in a smaller amount for a mass produced from the adhesion to one another at one excretion.
To achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided an animal excretion treating material which is a granulated product of a mixture comprising 49 to 59% by weight of a powdered natural organic substance having a particle size of 60 mesh or less, 20 to 30% by weight of powdered bentonite having a particle size of 200 mesh or less, 6 to 16% by weight of a powdered highly water-absorbable resin, and 5 to 15% by weight of a powdered binder, the granulated product having a bulk density of 0.25 to 0.5 g/cm.sup.3 and a water absorbing ability of 1.3 to 3 times its own weight.
In addition, according to the present invention, there is provided a process for producing an animal excretion treating material, comprising the steps of uniformly mixing, at a rotational speed of 600 rpm, 49 to 59% by weight of a powdered natural organic substance having a particle size of 60 mesh or less, 20 to 30% by weight of powdered bentonite having a particle size of 200 mesh or less, 6 to 16% by weight of a powdered highly water-absorbable resin, and 5 to 15% by weight of a powdered paste, granulating and drying the resulting mixture to provide a granulated and dried product which has a bulk density of 0.25 to 0.5 g/cm.sup.3 and a water-absorbing ability of 1.3 to 3 times its own weight.
The term "mesh" used in this specification means a mesh in Tyler standard sieve.
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Swiatek Robert P.
Yasukawa Y.
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