Cedar-based animal litter
AssigneeThe Clorox Company
InventorRaymond J. Fry
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Abstract
The invention provides a pelletted cedar-based composition comprising particles of cedar material and an alfalfa binder. Pellets comprising this composition are characterized by a pleasant odor, durability, and good adsorption, and odor neutralizing characteristics; such pellets, produced from material with known insect repellant characteristics, have particular utility as an animal litter.
Claims8
A composition comprising an adherent mass of cedar particles, an alfalfa binder, and water.
A pellet comprising cedar particles, an alfalfa binder, and water.
The process for the production of pellets of cedar particles comprising admixing cedar grist and particles of dehydrated alfalfa, moisturizing the resulting admixture, and pelletizing said moistened admixture.
A pellet comprising from about 50 to about 85% by weight cedar particles, from about 15 to about 50% by weight alfalfa as a binding material, and water as the remainder.
A process for producing pellets of cedar grist, dehydrated alfalfa, and water comprising mixing up to about 90% by weight of cedar grist with up to about 10% by weight dehydrated alfalfa, moistening the cedar grist-alfalfa admixture with water to provide a moisture content of from about 10% to about 20% by weight of said mixture, and thereafter pelletizing said moistened admixture.
An animal litter comprising pellets composed of cedar grist bound together with dehydrated alfalfa and water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.