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US 8,133,575 B2Granted
Artificial stone and method of preparing the same
AssigneeCheil Industries Inc.
InventorsDo Choon Rha, Eung Seo Park, Jae Wook Juen
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Abstract
An artificial stone, including a solid material and surface-treated stone elements in the solid material, wherein the surface-treated stone elements are transparent stone elements having a coloring material disposed on surfaces thereof.
Claims19
An artificial stone, comprising:
- a solid material;
- and
- surface-treated stone elements in the solid material, wherein:
- the surface-treated stone elements are transparent stone elements having a coloring material disposed on surfaces thereof, the coloring material includes a metal,
- transparent portions of the surface-treated stone elements are exposed at a surface of the artificial stone, and
- the transparent stone elements are entirely or partially covered by the coloring material.
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A method of preparing an artificial stone, comprising:
- combining a first material and surface-treated stone elements;
- forming the combined first material and surface-treated stone elements into a solid material that has a shape having an exposed surface;
- and
- processing the exposed surface so as to expose transparent portions of the surface-treated stone elements at a surface of the artificial stone, wherein the surface-treated stone elements are transparent stone elements having a coloring material disposed to entirely cover or partially cover surfaces of the transparent stone elements, and the coloring material including a metal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.