US 4,059,691 AGranted

Method of reducing the incidence of infectious diseases and relieving stress in livestock

AssigneeCAW Industries, Inc.

InventorJohn Wesley Willard, Sr.

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Abstract

The incidence of infectious disease in livestock is reduced and/or stress is relieved by providing the livestock with drinking water containing a catalytically effective amount of a unique catalyst. In a preferred variant, the drinking water may also contain lignite which has been pretreated with the catalyst until it is soluble. The catalyst is prepared by a process including the steps of admixing a water soluble alkali metal silicate with an aqueous medium containing carefully controlled amounts of water soluble substances which are sources of calcium ion and magnesium ion, reacting the same to produce an aqueous colloidal suspension of the reaction product, admixing a micelle forming surfactant with the aqueous medium, and agitating the aqueous medium containing the colloidal particles and surfactant to form catalyst-containing micelles. The preparation of the novel catalyst and the water soluble catalyst treated lignite is described in detail hereinafter. The invention is also useful in obtaining better utilization of feed and for other purposes.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A method of reducing the incidence of infectious disease in livestock or relieving stress in livestock comprising providing the livestock with drinking water containing a catalytically effective amount of a catalyst, the said catalyst being prepared by a process comprising

admixing a water soluble alkali metal silicate with an aqueous medium containing a dissolved substance which is a source of calcium ion and a dissolved substance which is a source of magnesium ion,
the aqueous medium containing said dissolved substances in amounts to provide between about 1 .times. 10.sup.-4 and 1 .times. 10.sup.-1 mole per liter each of calcium ion and magnesium ion,
the aqueous medium containing said dissolved substances in amounts to provide a molar ratio of calcium ion to magnesium ion between about 2.0:1.0 and 1.0:2.0,
the alkali metal silicate having an alkali metal oxide to silicon dioxide ratio between about 0.9:1.0 and less than 2.0:1.0 and being admixed with the aqueous medium in an amount of about 0.05-2 moles per liter,
reacting the alkali metal silicate with said dissolved substances providing calcium ion and magnesium ion to produce an aqueous suspension of finely divided particles of the reaction product,
admixing a micelle-forming surfactant with the aqueous medium in an amount to form catalyst micelles comprising said finely divided particles upon agitating the aqueous medium, and
agitating the aqueous medium containing the finely divided particles and surfactant to form said catalyst micelles.

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Facts

Application: 05/737,513Filed 1 Nov 1976 · continuation in part
Priority: 20 Jan 1971
Granted: 22 Nov 1977
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B01J 23/02
Catalysts comprising metals or metal oxides or hydroxides, not provided for in group B01J21/00: of the alkali- or alkaline earth metals or beryllium
A61K 33/00
Medicinal preparations containing inorganic active ingredients
B01J 37/00
Processes, in general, for preparing catalysts
B01J
Chemical or physical processes

Family

Serial108,198Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Jan 1971
Serial317,097Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 20 Dec 1972
Serial455,022Parent of this division · filed 26 Mar 1974
Serial593,712Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 7 Jul 1975
Serial712,158Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 6 Aug 1976
US 4,029,770 AParent of this continuation-in-part
US 3,984,540 AParent of this division
3893943Parent of this continuation-in-part
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