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US 8,771,526 B2Granted
Composite concrete article and method of manufacture thereof
AssigneeUniversity of Ulster
InventorsPatricia Clare Belford, Ruth Ellen Morrow
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a composite concrete article comprising affixing at least one layer of textile to a base layer and incorporating the base layer into a body of wet uncured concrete such that the base layer becomes embedded in the concrete, whereby at least a portion of the at least one textile layer defines at least a portion of a surface of the cured concrete article with the base layer embedded within the concrete to anchor the textile layer to the concrete.
Claims19
A method of manufacturing a composite concrete article comprising:
- affixing at least one layer of textile to a base layer;
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- incorporating the base layer into a body of wet uncured concrete such that the base layer becomes embedded in the wet uncured concrete, whereby when the concrete is cured to form a cured concrete article, at least a portion of the at least one textile layer defines at least a portion of an exposed surface of the cured concrete article with the base layer at least partially embedded within the concrete to anchor the textile layer to the concrete.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.