abstract |
A PROCESS FOR CASTING A SIMULATED, MARBLE BUILDING PRODUCT INCLUDING MIXING AND INITIATING POLYMERIZATION OF AN ORGANIC POLYMERIZABLE MATERIAL POSSESSING A RELATIVELY HIGH VISOSITY WITH AT LEAST ONE DISCRETE COHERENT ADDITIONAL STREAM OF A COMPATIBLE SECOND MATERIAL OF A DIFFERING COLOR, SAID ADDITIONAL STREAM HAVING A RELATIVELY LOW VISCOSITY, ACCUMLATING THE TWO COEXTENSIVE SEPARATELY IDENTIFIABLE MATERIALS OF PREDETERMNED PROPORTIONS AND APPLYING A LIMITED, CONTROLLED LOW ORDER MIXING ACTION TO PROGESSIVELY DISPLACE THE SECOND STREAM IN A PREDETERMINED REPRODUCIBLE THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFIGURATION THROUGHOUT THE POLYMERIZING MASS, EXTRUDING THE PATTERNED MASS THROUGH AN EXTRUSION ORIFICE AND SOLIDIFYING THE EXTRUDATE IN A MOLD ASSEMBLY TO PRESERVE THE REPODUCIBLE, THREE DIMENSIONAL, IRREGULAR PATTERN AND PREDETERMINED COLOR RELATIONSHIP SIMULATING NATURAL STONE OR MARBLE. |