Machine for hybrid cutting, preparing and finishing a slab with finished face down and related method
AssigneePoseidon Industries, Inc.
InventorJose Antonio Alva
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Abstract
A machine processes a slab that is positioned with the finished face down on vacuum pods on a work table. The side edges of the slab are cut with the slab upside by following a mirror imaged slab cut layout to form a slab corresponding substantially to the shape of a countertop. Without removing the cut slab from the vacuum pods and maintaining the finished face down, the machine routes a sink hole using a finger bit that had been switched onto the spindle, the routing path based upon the mirror imaged slab cut layout. The slab is finished by forming an edge profile on the inside of any sink holes and edging and polishing the sides of the finished slab.
Claims8
A method of processing a stone slab having rough cut side edges and a finished face and bottom surface, comprising:
- positioning the slab with the finished face down on vacuum pods positioned on a work table and oriented with a mirror imaged slab cut layout that is based upon a slab cut layout on the finished face of the slab;
- cutting with a circular saw blade mounted on a spindle the side edges of the slab upside down by following the mirror imaged slab cut layout to form a slab corresponding substantially to the shape of a countertop;
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- without removing the cut slab from the vacuum pods and maintaining the finished face down,
- routing any sink holes and any radius curves on the finished slab piece using a finger bit that had been switched onto the spindle after removal of the circular saw blade, the routing path based upon the mirror imaged slab cut layout, and
- finishing the slab by forming an edge profile on the inside of any sink holes and edging and polishing the sides of the finished slab.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.