Absorbent composition, method of making and using same
AssigneePersonal Pet Products Partnership
InventorsCyril L. Ducharme, Ralph C. Eickhof, David A. Heider, Denny W. Neiberger, Fred Maass
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An absorbent composition is disclosed which is particularly useful as an improved animal or pet litter composition, or as an absorbent for aqueous systems or oleophilic materials such as petroleum or vegetable oils and the like. Also disclosed is a method of making the improved absorbent composition and litter composition containing same.
Claims16
An absorbent composition comprising
- (i) a major amount of a cellulosic component,
- (ii) a minor amount of about 2-25% by weight of a binder based on the total weight of cellulosic material and binder;
- and
- (iii) a nitrogenous compound absorber;
- said binder consisting essentially of a material selected from the group consisting of carbohydrate, protein and mixtures thereof;
- said cellulosic component comprising:
- (a) from 50-100% by weight of a cellulosic hull material selected from the group consisting of cereal grain hulls, peanut hulls, soybean, rapeseed, sunflower and cottonseed hulls, and mixtures thereof and
- (b) up to 50% by weight of plant pulp;
- said nitrogenous compound absorber being cyclodextrin.
An absorbent composition consisting essentially of about 85% cellulosic hulls, about 15% of wheat flour and about 0.1% cyclodextrin containing a 10% by weight load of fragrance.
An absorbent composition consisting essentially of from about 40 to 60% cellulosic hulls by weight of the total absorbent composition, about 20 to 40% plant pulp, about 15-20% wheat flour and about 0.1% of cyclodextrin containing a fragrance weight load of about 10%.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.