Method of making animal litter

Details Method of making animal litter Method of making animal litter

1979-03-20

1980-08-19

Chamblee, Hugh R.

Animal husbandry

Entomological culture device

Egg treatment, production, or storage

A01K 1015

Patent

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042178584

ABSTRACT:
An improved animal litter and the method of making the same from peanut hulls, consisting of cleaning the hulls of all foreign material, crushing and/or grinding the peanut hulls to a size that will allow the hull particles to lie close together, either with or without an additive up to 50% by weight of the mixture, then the hulls or mixture being subjected to live steam or moisture, impregnating the peanut hulls or mixture with moisture and heat to soften the material to a point where it is in a pliable state, the pliable mass then being pelleted by forcing the hulls or mixture through a pelleting die of a pelleting machine, after which the pellets are removed from the pelleting die after they have reached a predetermined length. The preferred length of the pellets being approximately from 1/32 to 5/8 inch after which the pellets are cooled, dried, cleaned and bagged.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3675625 (1972-07-01), Miller et al.
patent: 3921581 (1975-11-01), Brewer
patent: 3941090 (1976-03-01), Fry
patent: 3983842 (1976-10-01), Marion et al.

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