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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1987

Filed:

Mar. 03, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:

Peter Flesher, West Yorkshire, GB;

John Clarke, West Yorkshire, GB;

David Marshall, West Yorkshire, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
524555 ; 524556 ;
Abstract

A slurry or cake is converted to a crumbly state by admixture, in the absence of a polymeric binder, with water swellable, cross-linked, non-sticky, wholly synthetic polymer particles formed of a polymer of acrylic acid (as free acid or water soluble salt) with cross-linking agent and, optionally, acrylamide and/or other monomers.


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