Stone fabrication scheme
AssigneeHoosier Sawyer, LLC
InventorJohn D. Steckling
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Abstract
Methods and systems of fabricating stone products are provided. The method comprises the steps of providing a stone piece, separating the stone piece into a plurality of sawed stone slabs by cutting with at least one saw blade, separating the plurality of sawed stone slabs into split stone slabs by cutting with a plurality of teeth, forming at least one pitched edge on at least one of the faces of the split stone slabs, and colliding the plurality of pitched stone slabs in a container to break the pitched stone slabs into a plurality of stone products having multiple lengths. The collisions include contacting between the pitched stone slabs, contacting between at least one pitched stone slab and the inner surface of the container, or both.
Claims19
A method of fabricating stone products comprising:
- providing at least one stone piece;
- separating the stone piece into a plurality of sawed stone slabs by cutting with at least one saw blade;
- separating the plurality of sawed stone slabs into split stone slabs by cutting with a plurality of teeth;
- forming at least one pitched edge on at least one of the faces of the split stone slabs;
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- colliding the plurality of pitched stone slabs in a container to break the pitched stone slabs into a plurality of stone products having multiple lengths, wherein the collisions include contacting between the pitched stone slabs, contacting between at least one pitched stone slab and the inner surface of the container, or both.
A system for fabricating stone products comprising:
- at least one cutting mechanism configured to separate at least one stone piece into a plurality of stone slabs;
- at least one pitching mechanism configured to form at least one pitched edge on at least one face of the plurality of stone slabs;
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- at least one container configured to receive a plurality of pitched stone slabs and further configured to facilitate collisions between the plurality of pitched slabs, the collisions being operable to break the pitched slabs into a plurality of stone products of multiple lengths, wherein the collisions include contacting between the pitched stone slabs, contacting between at least one pitched stone slab and the inner surface of the container, or both.
A system for fabricating stone products comprising:
- at least one saw mechanism comprising at least one saw blade, wherein the saw mechanism is configured to produce a plurality of sawed stone slabs from a stone piece;
- at least one splitter having a feed port and a plurality of teeth disposed therein, wherein the splitter is configured to further split the sawed stone slabs by cutting along a sawed slab plane orthogonal to the plane in which the stone piece is sawed;
- at least one pitching mechanism configured to form at least one pitched edge on at least one face of the split slabs;
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- at least one rotating container configured to receive a plurality of pitched stone slabs and further configured to facilitate collisions between the plurality of pitched slabs via rotation, the collisions being operable to randomly break the pitched slabs into a plurality of stone products of multiple lengths, wherein the collisions include contacting between the pitched stone slabs, contacting between at least one pitched stone slab and the inner surface of the container, or both.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.