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US 7,201,825 B2Granted
Process for making a flowable and meterable densified fiber particle
AssigneeWeyerhaeuser Company
InventorsRamon C. Dezutter, Michael R. Hansen
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Abstract
Discrete particles of cellulosic material are flowable and meterable. They are easily dispersible in an aqueous or a dry medium. The particles comprise singulated cellulose fibers that have been densified. The particles have a density of at least 0.3 g/cc.
Claims13
A process for producing a readily dispersible, flowable, and meterable cellulosic product consisting essentially of:
- singulating cellulose fibers derived from softwood by introducing never dried pulp fibers into a jet drier and drying and singulating the pulp fibers therein to form a mass consisting essentially of dried, singulated cellulose fibers and
- densifying the mass of dried singulated fibers and forming the fibers into discrete particles, each of said discrete particles consisting essentially of a plurality of dried, singulated cellulose fibers and that are mechanically bonded together, said particles dispersing into singulated fibers in less than one minute with agitation.
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