System for processing a slab having a top polished face and related method
AssigneePoseidon Industries, Inc.
InventorJose Antonio Alva
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Abstract
A system processes a stone slab having a top polished face and bottom surface. An imaging device receives and displays a digital image of the top polished face of the slab. A controller overlays a slab cut layout on the digital image of the top polished face, generates a digital slab layout file containing digital data representative of the top polished face and its slab cut layout referenced to the top end of adhered reference markers, mirror images the digital slab layout file, and projects the mirror imaged locations of the reference markers to facilitate alignment of the bottom ends of the adhered laser markers with the respective projected reference marker locations when the slab is upside down for cutting in a slab cutting position.
Claims27
A system of processing a stone or a stone-like slab having a top polished face and bottom surface, comprising:
- an imaging device configured to receive and display a digital image of the top polished face of the slab, the slab having side edges and a plurality of adhered reference markers on at least one side edge of the slab, each of the plurality of adhered reference markers being the thickness of the slab and having a top end and a bottom end flush with the respective top polished face and bottom surface;
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- a controller connected to the imaging device and configured to,
- overlay a slab cut layout on the digital image of the top polished face,
- generate a digital slab layout file therefrom containing digital data representative of the top polished face and its slab cut layout referenced to the top end of the adhered reference markers,
- mirror image the digital slab layout file, and
- project the mirror imaged locations of the reference markers to facilitate alignment of the bottom ends of the adhered laser markers with the respective projected reference marker locations when the slab is upside down for cutting in a slab cutting position.
A system of processing a stone or a stone-like slab having a top polished face and bottom surface, comprising:
- an imaging device configured to receive and display a digital image of the top polished face of the slab, the slab having opposing short sides and opposing long sides, and at least two adhered reference markers on at least one long side and at least one adhered reference marker on at least one short side, each of the plurality of adhered reference markers being the thickness of the slab and having a top end and a bottom end flush with the respective top polished face and bottom surface;
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- a controller connected to the imaging device and configured to,
- overlay a slab cut layout on the digital image of the top polished face,
- generate a Drawing Exchange Format (DXF) file containing digital data representative of the top polished face and its slab cut layout referenced to the adhered reference markers,
- mirror image the DXF file, and
- project the mirror imaged locations of the reference markers to facilitate alignment of the bottom ends of the adhered laser markers with the respective projected reference marker locations when the slab is upside down for cutting in a slab cutting position.
A method of processing a stone or a stone-like slab having side edges and a top polished face and bottom surface, comprising:
- adhering a plurality of reference markers on at least one side edge of the slab, each of the plurality of adhered reference markers being the thickness of the slab and having a top end and a bottom end flush with the respective top polished face and bottom surface;
- overlaying a slab cut layout on the top polished face and generating a digital slab layout file therefrom containing digital data representative of the top polished face and its slab cut layout referenced to the adhered reference markers;
- mirror imaging the digital slab layout file and projecting the mirror imaged locations of the reference markers when the slab is to be positioned in an upside down slab cutting position;
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- aligning the bottom ends of the adhered laser markers with the respective projected reference marker locations for upside down cutting of the slab.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.