Appeal No. 95-1110
Application 07/983,173
JP ‘752 discloses covering pet foods “such as cereals,
meats, meat by-products, dairy products, refined sugars,
vegetable oil lees, vitamins, minerals, and the like” (page 2)
with “[a]nimal oils and fats such as tallow, chicken fat, and the
like, and vegetable oils such as soybean oil” after the foods
have had their water contents adjusted by steam heating (page 3).
The purpose of the animal oils and fats is to improve the taste
of the pet foods. See id.
Evans discloses combining phosphoric acid or phosphate and
polyphosphate salts with cane molasses which is added to animal
feed such as whole oats and flaked grains to increase their
palatability (col. 1, lines 23-25 and 55-66). Evans teaches that
the addition of the phosphoric acid or phosphate and
polyphosphate salts results in the feed having a uniform golden
brown color rather than the spotted, dark brown color usually
obtained when cane molasses is added to the feed, and improves
the free-flowing characteristics of the feed (col. 1, line 66 -
col. 2, line 3). Evans further teaches that the addition of fats
such as soybean oil, tallow or soapstock to the feed, which are
desirable for increasing the nutritional value and free-flow
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