Engineered stone slab, and apparatus and method for creating
AssigneeSqip, LLC
InventorAlex Xie
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Abstract
A method which includes depositing fine fragments of composite material into a substantially vertically oriented preform funnel to form a substantially predetermined patterned preform of fine fragments of composite material; and extruding the predetermined patterned preform of fine fragments of composite material out of a bottom opening of the preform funnel by use of at least one pair of extruding rollers to form a ribbon of composite material. The at least one pair of extruding rollers may be configured to cause a reinforcement film to be pressed onto each of at least two major surfaces of the ribbon of composite material.
Claims25
A method for producing engineered stone comprising:
- depositing fragments of engineered stone mixture into a substantially vertically oriented preform funnel to form a substantially predetermined patterned preform of fragments of engineered stone mixture;
- wherein the substantially predetermined patterned preform of fragments of engineered stone mixture has a predetermined coloration pattern which is not uniform;
- extruding the substantially predetermined patterned preform of fragments of engineered stone mixture out of a bottom opening of the preform funnel by use of at least one pair of extruding rollers to form a ribbon of engineered stone mixture;
- wherein the preform funnel maintains the predetermined coloration pattern of the substantially predetermined patterned preform of fragments of engineered stone mixture;
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- wherein the at least one pair of extruding rollers is configured to cause a reinforcement film to be pressed onto each of at least two major surfaces of the ribbon of engineered stone mixture.
A method for producing engineered stone comprising:
- depositing fragments of engineered stone mixture with at least one reinforcement film through a first opening into a substantially vertically oriented preform funnel to form a substantially predetermined patterned preform of fragments of engineered stone mixture with the at least one reinforcement film, wherein both the fragments of engineered stone mixture and the at least one reinforcement film are deposited into the first opening from the same direction;
- extruding the substantially predetermined patterned preform of fragments of engineered stone mixture and the at least one reinforcement film out of a bottom opening of the preform funnel by use of at least one pair of extruding rollers to form a ribbon of engineered stone mixture;
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- wherein the at least one pair of extruding rollers is configured to cause the at least one reinforcement film to be pressed onto at least one of at least two major surfaces of the ribbon of engineered stone mixture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.