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GB2308538A
GB2308538A GB9626571A GB9626571A GB2308538A GB 2308538 A GB2308538 A GB 2308538A GB 9626571 A GB9626571 A GB 9626571A GB 9626571 A GB9626571 A GB 9626571A GB 2308538 A GB2308538 A GB 2308538A
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01KANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K1/00Housing animals; Equipment therefor
    • A01K1/015Floor coverings, e.g. bedding-down sheets ; Stable floors
    • A01K1/0152Litter
    • A01K1/0155Litter comprising organic material
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01JCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS
    • B01J20/00Solid sorbent compositions or filter aid compositions; Sorbents for chromatography; Processes for preparing, regenerating or reactivating thereof
    • B01J20/22Solid sorbent compositions or filter aid compositions; Sorbents for chromatography; Processes for preparing, regenerating or reactivating thereof comprising organic material
    • B01J20/24Naturally occurring macromolecular compounds, e.g. humic acids or their derivatives
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C05FERTILISERS; MANUFACTURE THEREOF
    • C05FORGANIC FERTILISERS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C05B, C05C, e.g. FERTILISERS FROM WASTE OR REFUSE
    • C05F5/00Fertilisers from distillery wastes, molasses, vinasses, sugar plant or similar wastes or residues, e.g. from waste originating from industrial processing of raw material of agricultural origin or derived products thereof
    • C05F5/002Solid waste from mechanical processing of material, e.g. seed coats, olive pits, almond shells, fruit residue, rice hulls
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02ATECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02A40/00Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production
    • Y02A40/10Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production in agriculture
    • Y02A40/20Fertilizers of biological origin, e.g. guano or fertilizers made from animal corpses
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02PCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
    • Y02P20/00Technologies relating to chemical industry
    • Y02P20/141Feedstock
    • Y02P20/145Feedstock the feedstock being materials of biological origin

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Description

COIR PITH The invention relates to coir pith. Coir pith is the residue from coconut husk, i.e. the residue remaining after the fibrous material is removed for rope manufacture and the like.
Coir pith is normally dried and compressed into briquettes, blocks or bales for export to Great Britain by the producers. The term briquettes will be used hereinafter to denote all these prior art forms of core pith.
The briquettes have for example previously been reconstituted by the addition of large volumes of water to produce a product for use as a peat substitute.
We have discovered that if the briquettes are reconstituted back into the original dry form, the resultant coir pith dust has a number of useful and sometimes unexplained uses.
Accordingly, our invention comprises taking a quantity of coir pith, for example in the form of briquettes and converting the coir pith into coir pith dust.
Preferably, the coir pith is converted to coir pith dust by a milling process.
The coir pith may be milled utilising a cutting head or milling head.
Specific machines to convert coir pith briquettes to coir pith dust may include the following : (a) a rotary knife or blade cutting against a stationary knife or blade or a combination of a number of knives or blades in the horizontal and vertical planes.
(b) a guillotine providing a chopping process to produce samples of desired lengths and thicknesses.
(c) a hammer mill with a number of rotating flails or hammers which push the resultant coir pith dust through stationary concave screens.
(d) a tumbling machine comprising a perforated rotating drum with paddles or blades attached to an inner wall. By rotation and contact with the wall and paddles the briquettes are broken down and the coir pith dust exuded through the perforations in the wall of the drum at a required size.
All the above processes may be carried out in the dry state, thus differentiating between motive processing and simple water expansion methods of reconstitution. The coir pith dust resulting from our process retains its dry form and further retains all its absorbent qualities.
After the above processes have been undertaken, it may be desirable to incorporate small amounts of water, oils, essences, silicone based surface tension adjusters, enzymes and digesters or naturally occurring products to tailor the coir pith dust to specific applications. It may also be incorporated within mats or blankets to produce a floating membrane.
The reconstituted coir pith dust, with or without incorporations, may be further refined by riddles, mixers and screens to produce consistently graded products.
We have discovered that coir pith dust has excellent hydroscopic and hydrophobic qualities and accordingly our invention also comprises a method of absorbing liquids by the application of the processed coir pith dust in any desired form.
The products produced by the above methods are many and various and may include the following :1. Sport : a dry application of coir pith dust may be applied to the goal mouth of sporting pitches, such as football or hockey pitches, to render them less wet and to improve the playing surface, or as a covering for frosted areas.
2. Motor sport : applied to wet or oily track surfaces coir pith dust efficiently absorbs any liquids making the track usable quickly and safely.
3. Cricket : after a shower coir pith dust can be applied to the wicket ends and run ups so that the ground can be quickly dried out and made safe to allow play to resume with the minimum of delay or resultant damage.
4. Equestrian bedding : to dry up stalls/boxes with the resultant waste material being suitable for garden dressing or manure.
5. General fluid absorbent : coir pith dust spread on spillages of most generally available fluids absorbs the fluids much more quickly than any other commercially available clay based products and the resultant waste material is much lighter.
6. Gardening : coir pith dust either alone or combined with other naturally occurring commodities can be used as a general soil improver or fertiliser.
7. Horticulture: coir pith dust can be used as a medium in its dry form to initially to carry seeds and once wet as a growing medium giving germination and moisture retention. Coir pith dust when blended with denser materials such as calcified seaweed or sand increases the bulking and improves the handling qualities of the other products rendering them more attractive to the end user.
8. Pet litter : unlike other commodities, coir pith dust dries naturally and this extends its longevity in use. When blended with other natural products, the combinations are ideally suited for pet litter and an additional plus point is that it can be disposed of to naturally degrade on the garden.
9. Poultry and animal farming : coir pith dust applied to areas around troughs absorbs excess moisture improving animal health and making cleaning easier.
10. Packaging : coir pith dust in either its dry form or pressed with the addition of moisture into pre-formed trays is a natural alternative to polystyrene with none of the subsequent disposal problems or re-use possibilities.
11. Insulation : in its loose form or reconstituted into a board or spray applied form, coir pith dust has high insulation qualities.
12. Anti-slip : coir pith dust applied to wet or slippery surfaces has the effect of increasing friction thereby reducing the slip factor.
13. Cleaning agent : in various forms the coir pith dust can be used as an agent for the cleaning of oxidised deposits from soft metal when low abrasion is a requirement.
14. Pelleting : for some of the above applications, the coir pith dust may be produced in a pelletised form.
A specific example of the invention will now be given.
I have established that 1 kg of coir pith can be milled by our process to produce 5 litres of coir pith dust. It has been calculated that 500 units of coir pith dust would easily absorb 350 units of water and expand to a total of 1,500 units using the first milled coir pith dust.
One tonne of standard size briquettes can be used to produce 1,250 x 4 litre packs of coir pith dust.
The reader's attention is directed to all papers and documents which are filed concurrently with or previous to this specification in connection with this application and which are open to public inspection with this specification, and the contents of all such papers and documents are incorporated herein by reference.
All of the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), and/or all of the steps of any method or process so disclosed, may be combined in any combination, except combinations where at least some of such features and/or steps are mutually exclusive.
Each feature disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise. Thus, unless expressly stated otherwise, each feature disclosed is one example only of a generic series of equivalent or similar features.
The invention is not restricted to the details of the foregoing embodiment(s). The invention extends to any novel one, or any novel combination, of the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), or to any novel one, or any novel combination, of the steps of any method or process so disclosed.

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1. A method of manufacturing a treatment product comprising the steps of taking a quantity of coir pith in bulk form and converting the coir pith into coir pith dust.
2. A method as claimed in Claim 1, in which the coir pith in bulk form is in the form of briquettes.
3. A method as claimed in Claim 2, in which the briquettes are converted to coir pith dust by a milling process.
4. A method as claimed in Claim 2 or Claim 3, in which the briquettes are converted by a cutting or chopping process.
5. A method as claimed in any one of Claims 2 to 4, in which the briquettes are converted using a hammering or flailing process.
6. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding Claims, in which a small amount of one or more of the following are added to or incorporated in the coir pith dust to tailor it to specific applications: water, oils, essences, silicone based surface tension adjusters, enzymes, digesters, other naturally occurring products.
7. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, in which the coir pith dust is used as a treatment product utilising the hydroscopic and hydrophobic properties of the coir pith dust.
8. A method as claimed in Claim 7, comprising absorbing liquid by the application of the coir pith dust.
9. A method of manufacturing a treatment product substantially as hereinbefore described.
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EP0898881A1 (en) * 1997-08-15 1999-03-03 Mels Elbert Doesburg Ground covering materials and applications thereof
EP1010366A3 (en) * 1998-12-18 2000-10-18 Antonello Santini Animal husbandry and bedding used
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EP1250836A2 (en) * 2001-03-29 2002-10-23 Foundainton Limited Disposable containers
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US6863027B1 (en) * 2003-07-01 2005-03-08 Tilak Silva Method of making coconut coir pitch cat litter from powder created from crushed coconut husks
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WO2012150611A2 (en) * 2011-05-04 2012-11-08 Omega Ecotech Products India Private Limited A process for refining pith obtained from coconut husk and manufacture of articles therefrom
US8316581B2 (en) 2004-11-19 2012-11-27 Rubin Patti D Compressed growing medium
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US8563099B2 (en) 2005-07-21 2013-10-22 Italgreen S.P.A. Artificial turf structure and production method therefore
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EP0867112A1 (en) * 1997-03-26 1998-09-30 Paolo Pellegatta Vegetable absorbent material for use as litter in zootechnical field
NL1006778C2 (en) * 1997-08-15 1998-10-14 Mels Elbert Doesburg Floor covering material for animal enclosure
EP0898881A1 (en) * 1997-08-15 1999-03-03 Mels Elbert Doesburg Ground covering materials and applications thereof
EP1010366A3 (en) * 1998-12-18 2000-10-18 Antonello Santini Animal husbandry and bedding used
NL1015864C2 (en) * 2000-08-02 2002-02-05 Komptech Sambeek B V Method is for stabilizing riding school floor and involves mixture of floor material with natural particles preferably comprising coconut fibers with average size of 0.5 to 25 cm
US6408568B1 (en) * 2001-01-23 2002-06-25 Oms Investments, Inc. Compressed blends of coconut coir pith and a non-coir/non-peat materials, and processes for the production thereof
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EP1250836A2 (en) * 2001-03-29 2002-10-23 Foundainton Limited Disposable containers
EP1250836A3 (en) * 2001-03-29 2003-12-03 Dainton Limited Disposable containers
WO2004078892A1 (en) * 2003-03-07 2004-09-16 Dainton Limited Coir pith
US6863027B1 (en) * 2003-07-01 2005-03-08 Tilak Silva Method of making coconut coir pitch cat litter from powder created from crushed coconut husks
NL1024072C2 (en) * 2003-08-08 2005-02-10 Codomar B V Use of coconut dust for solidifying liquid material, especially bentonite-based fluids, liquids from latex or paint baths, animal and vegetable fats or oils, or sewage sludge
US8316581B2 (en) 2004-11-19 2012-11-27 Rubin Patti D Compressed growing medium
US8544206B2 (en) 2004-11-19 2013-10-01 Patti D. Rubin Compressed growing medium
US9756798B2 (en) 2004-11-19 2017-09-12 Patti D. Rubin Burrow filling compressed growing medium
US8563099B2 (en) 2005-07-21 2013-10-22 Italgreen S.P.A. Artificial turf structure and production method therefore
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WO2012150611A2 (en) * 2011-05-04 2012-11-08 Omega Ecotech Products India Private Limited A process for refining pith obtained from coconut husk and manufacture of articles therefrom
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