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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Pioneer Pet Products, Llc, Cedarburg, WI (US);
John M. Lipscomb, Cedarburg, WI (US);
Omar I. Rodriguez, Cedarburg, WI (US);
Chad C. Berge, Menomonee Falls, WI (US);
Pioneer Pet Products, LLC, Cedarburg, WI (US);
Abstract
A post-extrusion extruded granular sorbent processing system having a pellet-collecting enclosure that receives pellets of granular sorbent extruded from a starch-containing admixture through a die at a discharge end of an extruder and transports the pellets in air from an air mover flowing from the enclosure through a pellet-conveying duct of a pneumatic conveyor cooling and drying the pellets. The system includes a subsystem configured for processing the pellets after extruding, cooling, and drying using a pellet processing machine configured for reducing a size of each pellet having a size greater than a size reduction setting of the machine. A preferred pellet processing machine has rotating horizontally and circumferentially corrugated rollers with a selectively variable gap between the rollers providing the size reducing setting and configuring the rotating rollers for reducing a size of the pellets passing between the rollers having a size greater than the gap between the rollers.