Artificial Dehydrated Pizzle Pet Chew Using Composite Extrusion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pet chews, such as traditional bully sticks and extruded plant-based products, face challenges including high cost, scarcity of raw materials, and difficulty in distinguishing products in a competitive market.
Innovation Solution
Development of an artificial dehydrated pizzle component for pet chews, combining plant and animal ingredients to mimic the structure, appearance, and palatability of traditional bully sticks, while being more cost-effective and easier to produce.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional dried animal pizzle (bully stick) products are used, then durability and palatability are improved, but cost and raw material acquisition difficulty worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates an artificial bully stick that copies the appearance, texture, and chewing characteristics of traditional animal pizzle products. The extruded product is designed to look and feel like real bully sticks, providing the same durability and palatability for pets while using plant-based and alternative animal ingredients that are cheaper and more readily available than natural bovine pizzle.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses composite materials combining plant-based ingredients (such as corn, wheat, or soy proteins) with animal by-products to create an artificial pizzle structure. This composite approach maintains the durability needed for pet chews while reducing dependence on expensive natural animal pizzle, thereby lowering raw material costs.
2Reliability
If traditional dried animal pizzle products are used, then palatability is improved, but raw material scarcity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The artificial bully stick copies the appealing characteristics of natural pizzle through its extruded structure, color, and texture. By replicating these sensory properties, the product maintains high palatability for pets without requiring scarce natural animal pizzle, thus solving the raw material availability problem.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent modifies the physical and chemical parameters of the chew product through extrusion processing, creating a structure and surface finish that mimics natural pizzle. This parameter transformation allows the use of abundant plant-based and alternative animal materials while achieving the same palatability as scarce natural pizzle products.
3Ease of manufacture
If extruded plant-based products are used, then cost is improved, but product distinction and market competitiveness worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The artificial bully stick is designed to copy the distinctive appearance and texture of traditional bully sticks, setting it apart from generic extruded plant-based chews. By replicating the specific visual and tactile characteristics of natural pizzle, the product achieves market distinction and competitiveness while maintaining the cost advantages of plant-based materials.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality differentiation by creating specific surface patterns, textures, and structural features in the extruded product that mimic natural pizzle. These localized quality enhancements (such as surface ridges, color variations, and texture patterns) distinguish the product from standard extruded chews while keeping the overall formulation cost-effective.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The artificial bully stick pet chew offers a cost-effective and easily producible alternative to traditional bully sticks, maintaining durability and palatability while reducing raw material costs and acquisition difficulties.
Implementation Method 1
The artificial dehydrated pizzle component is formed from a stick-shaped extrudate or other alternative shaped extrudate
Implementation Method 2
the extrudate is hardened by heat treatment
Data Source
AI summary
An edible pet chew includes a member of curved Artificial Bully Stick (artificial dried pizzle) formed from a composition material with at least 20% plant ingredient imitating existing traditional bully stick products, serving as an alternative to traditional bully stick product (such as bully ring, bully spiral, bully braid, etc.). The imitation includes the structure, and/or appearance, and/or size, and/or color, and/or texture, and/or flavor, and/or durability, and/or palatability of traditional bully stick product (such as bully stick ring, bully spiral, bully braid, etc.). Preferably it is an extrudate processed by an extruder and further re-shaped to end product configurations (such as a curl, ring and braid configuration).