Abstract: An excrement-treating material includes a water-absorbing core part, and a surface layer. The core part is formed by wet-kneading and compression-granulating a compounding material containing a paper powder and organic or inorganic fine pieces. Dents and/or protrusions are formed on the surface of the core part by deformation by the kneading or compression of the fine pieces or peeling-off of the fine pieces from the paper powder upon release of compression. The surface of the core part is discontinuously colored by utilizing the dents and/or protrusions, and covered with the surface layer. The colored parts of the surface of the core part are exposed through the surface layer during absorption of excreted urine, while the non-colored part of the surface of the core part is stained by the color of the excreted urine, and the color of the excreted urine is exposed through the surface layer.

Abstract: A method of producing granular excreta treating material utilizes an extrusion type compressive granulating apparatus configured to produce granular excreta treating material that has an absorbing property and is formed by extruding and granulating a raw material via a granulating hole of the apparatus. The granulating hole includes a small diameter hole and a large diameter hole which are continuous to each other in the axial direction of the hole, in which the small diameter hole forms a compression zone, and the large diameter hole forms a non-compression zone, and in which the raw material is compressed at the compression zone, swells at the non-compression zone, and is cut into granules by a cutting blade rotating along an outlet surface of the non-compression zone.

Abstract: An excrement-treating material has a core part, and a surface layer bonded to the core part by utilizing the adhesion ability of a water-absorbable polymer in the surface layer without using an adhesive. The excrement-treating material suitably exerts the water absorbability and water transport ability inherent to the surface layer. The excrement-treating material is constituted by incorporating pulverized water-absorbable polymer particles of 20 ?m to 50 ?m, and adding water to the surface of the core part after granulation to noncontinuously form a highly-wet part; reacting a water content in the highly-wet part and the pulverized water-absorbable polymer to noncontinuously form an adhering part; and bonding the surface layer to the core part through the adhering part. Upon absorption of excreted urine, permeation of the urine into the core part is accelerated in a part other than the adhering part.

Abstract: An extrusion type compressive granulating apparatus is configured to produce granular excreta treating material that has an absorbing property and is formed by extruding and granulating a raw material via granulating holes formed in a table of the apparatus. A space rib is provided at a lower surface of the die table so as to form a gap below the granulating holes. A cutting blade is provided below the gap. The granulating holes each form a compression zone for compressing the raw material, and the gap forms a non-compression zone in which the compressed material swells before being cut by the cutting blade at the outlet of the non-compression zone.

Abstract: Moisture absorbing efficiency of excrement is enhanced by providing a high degree of porosity and a high porosity ratio to a hydraulic granulated body and a non-hydraulic granulated body in a method of manufacturing a granulated body for absorbing excrement of animals. There is provided a method of manufacturing a granulated body for absorbing excrement of animals, characterized in that dry bamboo fibers and wood fibers are used as a chief material. The dry bamboo fibers and wood fibers are mixed with each other while adding moisture thereto and the dry bamboo fibers are allowed to absorb the moisture. The resultant is granulated to form a wet granulated body, hot air is blown to the wet granulated body, and the moisture absorbed in the dry bamboo fiber is transpired outward through the wet granulated body by the hot air. A porous structure in the dry bamboo fibers in the wet granulated body is produced by the transpiration due to formation of transpiring paths in the wet granulated body.

Abstract: The present invention provides a golf club head, in which a stable high-inertia moment is generated at the time of down swinging and impacting of a golf club, thereby reliably achieving the effect of increase in driving distance. A golf club head has a plurality of hollow chambers 3 arranged in mutually parallel relation and in mutually adjacent relation within a head 1 from a heel 6 toward a toe 7. Each hollow chamber 3 is faced with a sole-forming wall. A weight 9 composed of a granular body or liquid body is sealed in each of the hollow chambers 3, and each of the hollow chambers 3 is provided with an openable and closable inlet/outlet port 8 for charging the weight 9 into each of the hollow chambers 3.

Abstract: To make development of a discharged urine absorbent portion of a granulated-type discharged urine processing material for animal correctly so that before-use and after-use can be discriminated properly.

Abstract: To make development of a discharged urine absorbent portion of a granulated-type discharged urine processing material for animals correctly so that before-use and after-use can be discriminated properly.

Abstract: To provide a structure of a head of an iron club for golf in which grass resistance during a shot can be extensively reduced, follow-through of the swing of the club head can easily be conducted in the rough even by beginners and powerless golfers, poor shots such as chips and shanks can effectively be eliminated, and safety is ensured by solving the problem of accidents resulting in injury and death by shanking, etc. The structure of the head of the iron club for golf includes grass relief grooves 5 which are formed in a leading edge portion zone 4 of the club head 1 such that the grass relief grooves 5 are open at a leading edge 4a and released at a surface 4b on the side of the striking face 2 of the leading edge portion zone 4 and at a surface 4c on the side of a sole face 3 of the leading edge portion zone 4.

Abstract: A discharged urine or other waste fluids processing material for animals is fabricated of a short twisted paper rod obtained by cutting a twisted string into short pieces which twisted string is formed by twisting a strip of paper. The short twisted paper rod has such a paper layer structure that a fiber thereof is oriented from one end cutting plane thereof towards the other end cutting plane, and owing to the paper layer structure, the discharged urine or other waste fluids are allowed to permeate into the short twisted paper rod from the cutting planes.

Abstract: A discharged urine or other waste fluids processing material for pet animals composed of fluid absorbent coarse particles which are subjected to compression molding without the addition of water so as to have a prescribed pellet configuration.