IP Library Granted Patent US 11,597,687
Granted Patent B2
US 11,597,687 · App. 17/678,811 · Granted Mar 7, 2023

Bulk animal bedding

Inventors: Brian Scott (Ambridge, PA); Charles Lee Bethke (Williamston, MI); Mark David Goldman (Sewickley, PA)
Assignee: PittMoss, LLC
C05F11/00A01K1/015A01K1/0154A01K1/0155C05G5/12
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Patent No.
US 11,597,687
App. No.
17/678,811
Granted
Mar 7, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A bulk animal bedding material is presented comprising shredded and fiberized natural lignocellulosic material vigorously blended with a solvent and small grain particles (SGPs) to form twisted, curled, clumped, and rolled fibers with the SGPs integrated within and/or encasing said fibers.

Claims (10)

1. A bulk animal bedding material comprising:

shredded and fiberized natural lignocellulosic material vigorously blended with a solvent and grain particles (SGPs) to form twisted, curled, clumped, and rolled fibers with the SGPs integrated within and/or encasing said fibers.

2. The bulk animal bedding material of claim 1 , wherein the bulk animal bedding material has a dry bulk density of 50 to 250 grams per liter.

3. The bulk animal bedding material of claim 1 , wherein the bulk animal bedding material contains internal micro pores and a structure providing external macro pores.

4. The bulk animal bedding material of claim 1 , wherein said SGPs are a size of about 1/16 to about 1 mm.

5. The bulk animal bedding material of claim 1 , wherein said SGPs comprise one or more of hoof and horn materials, ground shells, ground pits, ground seeds, coffee grounds, chaff, hulls, brewery waste, granulated products of fermenting and fuel production, ground shells, ground or processed forestry products, calcined clay, sand, fused earth products, pumice, volcanic ash, perlite, vermiculite, gypsum, lime, fertilizer, coal fines, rock dust, ground glass, concrete, asphalt, metal, food service containers, solidified fibers, plastics, or processed plastics.

6. The bulk animal bedding material of claim 1 , wherein said shredded and fiberized natural lignocellulosic material range in diameter from 0.1 millimeter to 5 millimeters and in length from 0.1 to 50 millimeters.

7. The bulk animal bedding material of claim 1 , wherein the bulk animal bedding material includes blended glues and tackifiers.

8. The bulk animal bedding material of claim 1 , wherein the bulk animal bedding material ranges in from 0.2 cm to 1.5 cm in diameter across a broadest dimension.

9. The bulk animal bedding material of claim 1 , wherein said solvent comprises water.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 21, 2025
From: PITTMOSS LLC
To: MBER VENTURES, INC.
Reel/Frame 071182/0916 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 6, 2022
From: SCOTT, BRIAN; BETHKE, CHARLES LEE; GOLDMAN, MARK DAVID
To: PITTMOSS, LLC
Reel/Frame 060110/0504 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation In Part 17521022 · Nov 8, 2021
Continuation 14856663 · Sep 17, 2015
Provisional Application 62060911 · Oct 7, 2014
Related Publication 20220177382A1 · Jun 9, 2022