Church Dwight & Co., Inc.

Dragomir Mark Bracilovic

Joseph A Paluzzi

Andrew D Kurtz

Zbigniew Senk

Anthony E Winston

Francis R Cala

Lawrence Kirschner

Frederick W Lawson

Lauren Ciemnolonski

Stephen P Lengyel

Mike Kelly

Zbignew M Senk

There is provided an absorbent composition for water-based liquids, wherein dusting normally associated with handling of powdered absorbent materials is significantly reduced. The composition can be an animal litter, such as cat litter. The composition is formed by mixing a filler with a de-dusting agent and spraying an aqueous slurry of a deodorizing agent onto the mixture. The mixture is then added to a water absorbing material such as clay to uniformly mix the deodorizing agent with the water absorbing material.

Animal litter composition

A boundary layer carbonation process for producing sodium bicarbonate crystals having specific surface area in the range 0.4 m/g to 2.5 m/g from Trona, wherein in one embodiment the process comprises the steps of: providing Trona particles having a particle size range of &#x2212;4+120 mesh; pre-wetting the Trona particles with water to provide a plurality of pre-wetted Trona particles each having a liquid water solution boundary layer deposited thereon; and carbonating the pre-wetted Trona particles across the water boundary layer to provide a product comprising sodium bicarbonate crystals.

Boundary layer carbonation of trona

A boundary layer carbonation process for producing sodium bicarbonate crystals having specific surface area in the range 0.4 m/g to 2.5 m/g from Trona, wherein in one embodiment the process comprises the steps of: providing Trona particles having a particle size range of &#x2212;4 +120 mesh; pre-wetting the Trona particles with water to provide a plurality of pre-wetted Trona particles each having a liquid water solution boundary layer deposited thereon; and carbonating the pre-wetted Trona particles across the water boundary layer to provide a product comprising sodium bicarbonate crystals.

Boundary layer carbonation of Trona

A non-color transferable animal litter that employs painted particles and non-painted water absorbent material. The painted particles are colorfast once dry. Upon wetting the dried painted particles do not bleed. The water absorbent material may be a clumping or non-clumping material.

Non color-transferable animal litter

Dry blended carbonate or phosphate-based laundry detergents are prepared by adding to unhydrated or partially hydrated builder salts, a pH buffering compound and a detergent active compound, together with other formulating agents, coarse, hydrous granular water soluble silicate particles, the silicate particles passing a 10 mesh screen and about 95% of the particles are retained on a 100 mesh screen, according to the disclosed method. Dry blended laundry detergents so formulated are substantially completely free of insoluble product lumps when used in cold wash water in the temperature range of 35.degree.-75.degree. F.

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Princeton, NJ, United States of America

Dragomir Mark Bracilovic