Patent ID: 8221776

Claim:
A granule comprising, on a dry basis, at least 88 weight percent acephate, said granule being produced by a method comprising the steps of providing acephate in powder form along with a liquid to a noncompressive agglomerator and processing said powder and said liquid through said agglomerator to yield a granule, said agglomerator having a rotatable vertical shaft with a plurality of blades mounted to the shaft, wherein said granule has a diameter of 0.15-3.5 mm and a tapped bulk density of 32-40 lbs/cubic foot, said granule being less than 1% moisture and having a dissolution rate in water of not more than 15 inversions, said inversions being counted by filling a 100 mL graduated cylinder with 100 mL of water, adding 1 g of said granules, stoppering the cylinder, then inverting the cylinder for the first inversion and permitting the granules to settle to the bottom, then repeating these inversions until the granules have dissolved.