Building-wall flexible cladding
AssigneePaul James Bishop IP Holdings Limited
InventorPaul BISHOP
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing building-wall flexible cladding (12) for a wall of a building so that a cladding outer surface of the building-wall flexible cladding (12) matches or substantially matches a textured wall surface of the wall of the building. This is first achieved by selecting the wall to be modelled (S101) and forming an impression of the wall (S102). An absorbent flexible substrate (18) is provided (S103), and a wet mixture (24) created (S105) and applied to the substrate (18, S106) to form one or more tiles (24a). The wet mixture (24) is textured by applying the impression so that the cladding outer surface corresponds or substantially corresponds to the said textured wall surface (S108). Finally, the textured wet mixture is cured (S109).
Claims23
A method of manufacturing building-wall flexible cladding for a wall of a building so that a cladding outer surface of the building-wall flexible cladding matches or substantially matches a textured wall surface of the wall of the building, the method comprising the steps:
- a. selecting at least part of the textured wall surface to be modelled;
- b. forming an impression of said selected part of the textured wall surface;
- c. providing an absorbent flexible substrate;
- d. creating a wet mixture comprising a powdered aggregate and a binding agent;
- e. applying the wet mixture to the flexible substrate to form one or more tiles;
- f. texturing the wet mixture by applying the impression so that the cladding outer surface corresponds or substantially corresponds to the said textured wall surface;
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- g. curing said textured wet mixture to form building-wall flexible cladding.
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A building-wall-flexible-cladding manufacture system for manufacturing building-wall flexible cladding having a cladding outer surface which matches or substantially matches at least part of a textured wall surface of a building, the system comprising:
- a manufacturing assembly having:
- a movable substrate support to support a flexible substrate of the building-wall flexible cladding,
- a wet-mixture applicator to apply wet mixture to the flexible substrate so as to form one or more tiles,
- an impression applicator to apply an impression of at least part of said textured wall surface of the building to the wet mixture so that the cladding outer surface corresponds or substantially corresponds to said textured wall surface,
- the movable substrate support able to be moved from the wet-mixture applicator to the impression applicator;
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- a curing element to cure the wet mixture to form building-wall-flexible cladding.
A building-wall-flexible-cladding element comprising:
- an absorbent flexible substrate to apply to a wall of a building;
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- a plurality of tiles attached to the absorbent flexible substrate;
- each tile having an outer surface with an impression thereon which matches or substantially matches a textured wall surface of the in-use building.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.