US 2019/0351575 A1 · Method for Casting a Construction Element and a Mould for Use in the Method

Abstract

A method for casting a construction element includes: using a CAD technique designing mould bodies 12 comprising mould-halves 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8; printing the mould-halves on a 3D printer which includes an adhesive dispensing system; providing a locating formation 16 on mould-half 12.7; reinforcing the mould-halves with two polyurethane or polyurea coatings; applying form wax to the mould-halves; printing a conduit 18 on a 3D printer; locating the mould-halves at a construction site and securing the mould halves to one another; locating the conduit 18 relative to the mould-halves by means of the locating formation 16; pouring concrete into the assembled mould so as to embed the conduit 18 within the concrete; and allowing the concrete to cure; removing the mould-halves and repeating a desired number of times.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for casting a construction element, the method including:

using, at least in part, an additive manufacturing technique to fabricate at least one mould comprising a negative of a construction element to be cast, the at least one mould including one or more casting surfaces;
reinforcing, at least in part, said at least one mould with a polymeric material;
pouring a settable material in contact with said one or more casting surfaces of the at least one mould;
at least partially curing the poured settable material so as to form the construction element.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/415,139Filed 17 May 2019

Priority

AE P6000683/201817 May 2018

Published

21 Nov 2019

Term ends

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Classification21 codes

B28B 1/14
Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material: by simple casting, the material being neither forcibly fed nor positively compacted
B28B 7/346
Moulds, cores, or mandrels of special material, e.g. destructible materials: manufacture of moulds
B28B 7/362
Linings or coatings, e.g. removable, absorbent linings, permanent anti-stick coatings; Linings becoming a non-permanent layer of the moulded…
B28B 7/364
Linings or coatings, e.g. removable, absorbent linings, permanent anti-stick coatings; Linings becoming a non-permanent layer of the moulded…

Method for Casting a Construction Element and a Mould for Use in the Method

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Method for Casting a Construction Element and a Mould for Use in the Method

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Abstract

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