Absorbant animal bedding
AssigneeDickey Environmental Systems, LLC
InventorsMark Gerling, Patricia C. Dickey
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Abstract
An absorbant animal bedding made from ground, bleached, and dried corn stalks. A method for making the animal bedding using a tub grinder for grinding raw corn stalks to ground corn stalk pieces, a spray nozzle for spraying a bleach and sanitizing solution on the ground corn stalk pieces, a dryer system for drying the ground corn stalk pieces, a fire detection and extinguishment system for detecting and extinguishing any sparks or fire in the dried corn stalks after leaving the dryer system, a cyclonic separator for separating moist air from the dried corn stalk pieces, and mechanism for removing dust before the ground stalk pieces are conveyed to a packaging location.
Claims1
An absorbant animal bedding made by the process comprising the steps of:
- breaking corn stalks to a distribution of lengths having a mean less than two inches;
- spraying said lengths of broken corn stalks with a bleach solution to deactivate microorganisms thereon and to lighten in color at least 75% of said corn stalks;
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- thereafter drying the corn stalks to a moisture content of less than 20% by weight.
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