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US 7,648,666 B2Granted
Method of forming building blocks using block press equipment having translating fluid injection apparatus
OwnerSteve Eugene Everettinventor
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Abstract
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for depositing a quantity of article-forming media within a media receiving cavity of article forming equipment. After depositing at least a portion of the article-forming media within the media receiving cavity, an operation performed for depositing a volume of a prescribed fluid into the media receiving cavity. Depositing the prescribed fluid includes moving a first fluid delivery device through the quantity of the article-forming media while injecting the prescribed fluid through the first fluid delivery device into the quantity of the article-forming media.
Claims17
A method, comprising:
- depositing a quantity of article-forming media within a media receiving cavity of article forming equipment, wherein the article forming equipment includes a compression case and two compression bodies slideably disposed within a compression body receiving passage of the compression body, wherein the media receiving cavity is jointly formed by a media compressing face of each one of said compression bodies and walls of the compression case defining the compression body receiving passage;
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- depositing a volume of a prescribed fluid into the media receiving cavity after depositing at least a portion of said article-forming media within the media receiving cavity, wherein depositing the prescribed fluid includes providing a fluid delivery mechanism within a first one of said compression bodies and extending a first fluid delivery device of the fluid delivery mechanism through a delivery device receiving opening within the media compressing face of the first one of said compression bodies and into a delivery device receiving opening within the media compressing face of a second one of said compression bodies and wherein the first fluid delivery device has a substantially straight longitudinal axis extending substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the compression body receiving passage, and wherein depositing the prescribed fluid includes moving the first fluid delivery device through the quantity of said article-forming media while injecting the prescribed fluid through the first fluid delivery device into the quantity of said article-forming media.
A method of forming building blocks, comprising:
- performing relative positioning of a compression case and two opposed compression bodies movably mounted within a compression body receiving passage of the compression case for forming a media receiving cavity within the compression body receiving passage between a media compressing face of said compression bodies;
- depositing a quantity of block-forming media within the media receiving cavity, wherein said block-forming media includes a curable binding material dispersed therein, wherein curing of the curable binding material is caused by contact with a prescribed activation material and wherein the volume of block forming media is substantially devoid of the prescribed activation material during said depositing of the volume of block-forming media;
- performing relative positioning of the compression case for closing an entry into the media receiving cavity through which the quantity of block-forming media was deposited after the quantity of block-forming media is deposited within the media receiving cavity;
- depositing a quantity of the prescribed activation material into the media receiving cavity, wherein depositing the prescribed activation material includes providing an activation material delivery mechanism within a first one of said compression bodies and extending a first activation material delivery device of the activation material delivery mechanism through a delivery device receiving opening within the media compressing face of the first one of said compression bodies and into a delivery device receiving opening within the media compressing face of a second one of said compression bodies, wherein the first activation material delivery device has a substantially straight longitudinal axis extending substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the compression body receiving passage, and wherein depositing of the prescribed activation material includes moving the first activation material delivery device through the quantity of said block-forming media while injecting the prescribed activation material through the first activation material delivery device into the quantity of said block-forming media;
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- moving at least one of said compression bodies toward the other one of said compression bodies under sufficient force to compress said block-forming media into a building block, wherein said moving is initiated in accordance with a timeframe selected from the group consisting of during depositing of the prescribed activation material and upon completion of depositing the prescribed activation material and wherein the first activation material delivery device remains within the delivery device receiving opening of each one of said compression bodies during said moving.
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