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US 10,743,565 B2Granted
Feed pellets and related systems and methods
AssigneeCan Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTodd G. Brion, James Nathan Pike
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods of making a feed pellet for an animal by agglomerating at least two ingredients in a first apparatus to form a plurality of nuclei and tumbling the plurality of nuclei in a second apparatus and simultaneously providing additional amounts of the at least two ingredients to the second apparatus, thereby forming a plurality of feed pellets for an animal. The present disclosure also relates to associated feed pellets and systems.
Claims23
A method of making feed pellets for an animal, the method comprising:
- feeding binder in a liquid form into a mixing apparatus to combine with a dry mix;
- agglomerating at least two ingredients comprising the binder and the dry mix in the mixing apparatus to form a plurality of nuclei;
- transferring the plurality of nuclei to a growth agglomeration apparatus that is separate from the mixing apparatus;
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- tumbling the plurality of nuclei in the growth agglomeration apparatus and simultaneously feeding an additional amount of the binder in the liquid form and feeding an additional amount of the dry mix to the growth agglomeration apparatus, thereby forming a plurality of feed pellets for an animal;
- wherein the plurality of nuclei and the plurality of feed pellets are formed without pressurized extrusion.
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