Animal litter and method for manufacturing same
AssigneeUnicharm Corporation
InventorTatsuya Sogou
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Abstract
Provided is an animal litter that is capable of sufficiently exerting an effect of perfume-containing microcapsules over a long period of time, and a method for manufacturing the same. The animal litter includes a plurality of grains, wherein each of these grains includes a granular base material and a plurality of microcapsules adhering to the outer surface of the base material, the base material includes a low-absorbent material having an initial absorption rate of 10% or less, and the individual microcapsules are impact-breakable microcapsules including a perfume.
Claims13
Animal litter comprising granules, each of the granules including
- a granular base material, and
- multiple microcapsules adhering to an outer surface of the base material, wherein
- the base material includes a low absorbent material with an initial absorption rate of no greater than 10%, and
- each of the multiple microcapsules is an impact-disintegrating microcapsule including an aromatic substance.
A method of manufacturing animal litter, the method comprising:
- a granulation step in which multiple grains of a granular base material are granulated from a raw material that includes at least a low absorbent material with an initial absorption rate of no greater than 10%,
- a conveying step in which granulated base material grains are conveyed to a storage tank, and
- a packaging step in which granular base material grains that have been conveyed to the storage tank are packaged into fixed quantities,
- wherein the packaging step further includes blasting of multiple microcapsules onto the granular base material grains to form the animal litter, the animal litter comprising granules, each of the granules including
- the granular base material, and
- the multiple microcapsules adhering to an outer surface of the base material,
- wherein the base material includes the low absorbent material with the initial absorption rate of no greater than 10%, and
- wherein each of the multiple microcapsules is an impact-disintegrating microcapsule including an aromatic substance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.