Method for reproducing photographs, drawings, or the like, on marble or granite

Abstract

A method for reproducing a photograph, drawing, or the like, hereinafter called the "original", on granite, marble or other hard stone, such as building corner stones, road markers, monuments, etc. The method consists in the steps of tracing onto the surface of a transparent acetate film the outlines of shaded areas of the original, placing the film on the surface of a first sheet of tough material that is capable of resisting the impingement of blasted sand and that is a member of a laminate which also comprises a transparent backing sheet adhered to the back of the tough sheet, removing the shaded areas from the tough sheet, cutting through the film and the laminate along the perimeter of the original to separate the laminate from the first sheet, placing a second sheet of tough material that is larger in area than the original onto the surface of the stone, tracing the perimeter of the original onto the second sheet and removing the entire traced original area therefrom, "dusting" the area of the stone from which the entire traced original area has been removed, adhering the cut out laminate to the surface of the stone in the open area of the second sheet, sand blasting through all of the cutout areas of both of the sheets of tough material and removing the sheets from the stone.

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