Miscellaneous Patents (Class 125/1)
  • Patent number: 5597627
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stone product in sheet form suitable for use both outdoors and indoors, e.g. as a facade cladding or a fitting, etc. The stone product in question has undergone impregnation treatment with a view to causing its strength and flexibility to be increased through the presence of an impregnating agent in existing pores, cracks and other cavities in the stone sheet in question. A method for producing said stone product and means for its manufacture are also included in the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Techstone i Kinna AB
    Inventor: Jan-Inge Lindeberg
  • Patent number: 5211156
    Abstract: The method and apparatus treat a surface of natural rock or artificial stone-like material to give to this surface an attractive finish. A high temperature jet of plasma and a high speed jet of cooling fluid are projected onto the surface to be treated. The two jets are moved on the surface at a given speed with the jet of cooling fluid following the plasma jet. The speed of movement is selected so that the high temperature plasma jet heats only a thin superficial layer of rock or stone-like material. As the jet of cooling fluid follows the jet of plasma, it suddenly cools the thin superficial layer just heated by the plasma jet to cause a thermal shock which bursts particles of rock or stone-like material at the surface thereof, and blows these particles off the rock surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Universite De Sherbrooke
    Inventors: Jerzy Jurewicz, Maher Boulos, Clermont Roy
  • Patent number: 5078815
    Abstract: A method of making a decorative, transparent laminate comprised of a thin layer of stone bonded by an adhesive to a transparent, rigid substrate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Inventor: Robert S. Othon
  • Patent number: 5004512
    Abstract: A method of making a stone veneer panel including finishing one face of a slab of stone material; placing the slab finished face down on a support plate; machining the unfinished face to obtain a predetermined thickness of the slab; and bonding a backing sheet to the unfinished face of the stone slab to produce a composite stone veneer panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Inventor: Frank Fodera
  • Patent number: 4952445
    Abstract: A strong marble tile trim for providing a smooth transition at an inside corner between two tile walls and at an outside corner for a termination point of tile, is shown in which the tile trim is made from permanently bonded strips with one of the strips having an exposed face formed as a quarter-round surface having a radius in the range of about 2.0 to 3.3 times the thickness of the tile. The method of making the strip is described in which two standard tiles have their major faces placed against permanently bonding mortar and, after being bonded, they are cut into strips and one of said strips has formed thereon, by grinding, either a concave or a convex surface having a radius in the range of about 2.0 to 3.3 times the thickness of the tile for which it has been formed, yet still within one tile thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Inventor: Rick A. Dillon
  • Patent number: 4822661
    Abstract: Furniture having genuine stone surfaces is formed of panels of flat slabs of stone bonded by adhesive to underlying supports coextensive with the slabs of stone. The slabs of stone are cut concurrently from a block of stone by means of a gang-saw. Each slab of stone is no greater than about one centimeter in thickness. Articles of furniture constructed of panels with the stone surfaces are comparable in weight and cost to articles of furniture constructed of solid wood, and have surfaces of genuine stone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Inventor: Gino C. Battaglia
  • Patent number: 4821703
    Abstract: The opening method to drill openings with required largeness on thick reinforced concrete walls such as a reinforced concrete dam body is presented.This method comprises (1) the process of drilling cable penetrations in the depth direction on each corner around the opening domain on a reinforced concrete wall, (2) the process of penetrating cutting cable through cable penetrations and to carry out wire sawing with water injection, (3) the process to break and remove the separated core.According to this method, the required opening for thick reinforced concrete walls such as a reinforced concrete dam body which has been regarded as difficult if not impossible, can be safely and exactly drilled with the smallest number of processes, having no bad influence on the surrounded wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Dymosha
    Inventor: Setsuo Kubo
  • Patent number: 4807587
    Abstract: In a process using a hand-held drilling device for forming openings in a construction material containing steel reinforcing members, during the drilling step the electrical resistance between the drill bit and the reinforcing members is continuously measured. If the drill bit contacts the reinforcing member the measuring circuit is shorted out and the electrical resistance drops. The drop in resistance can be used as a signal for cutting power to the drilling device or for declutching or braking the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Baetschmann, Hansjorg Nipp, Karl Blaas
  • Patent number: 4674473
    Abstract: A geological core sample is slabbed by advancing the sample against a horizontally oriented bandsaw blade. A receiving tray positioned immediately adjacent and to the rear of the bandsaw blade provides continuous support to the upper portion of the slab as it is cut from the sample and maintains the integrity of friable and unconsolidated materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: Arabian American Oil Company
    Inventor: Ross W. Stewart
  • Patent number: 4557244
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of machine cutting a semidense silicon comprising particulate body by relatively moving a substantially fully dense silicon nitride cutting tool against the body. The silicon nitride tool experiences increased tool life over that of carbides or tool steels heretofore used to machine cut low density, highly abrasive metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Richard L. Allor
  • Patent number: 4484559
    Abstract: Apparatus for removing covering material from underwater pipelines. A frame of the apparatus is clampingly engaged to the pipeline. A plurality of pipeline material cutters are cantileverly supported beyond the clamp to provide a plurality of cutting passes simultaneously and away from the points of attachment of the apparatus to a pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Assignee: McDermott Incorporated
    Inventors: Billy R. Ledford, Alan J. Hartt
  • Patent number: 4439657
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for high temperature treatment of rectilinear-generatrix surfaces of nonconductive products. The apparatus comprises an anode arranged opposite to a cathode to provide an arc gap therebetween for striking an arc discharge. The apparatus is further provided with a product feeding device to move the product a desired distance from the axis of the arc. The cathode is held securely in place, while the anode is positioned, integrally with the fixed cathode, to maintain a fixed position of the arc axis within the arc gap exceeding the length of the generatrix of the surface being treated. The feeding device is designed so as to provide the movement of the products in a plane extending normally to the axis of the arc when the generatrix of the surface being treated is parallel to the axis of the arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Institut Fiziki Akademii Nauk Belorusskoi SSR
    Inventors: Vladimir D. Shimanovich, Andrei K. Shipai, Vladimir G. Davydenko, Leonid I. Kiselevsky, Sergei G. Korotkevich, Nelli I. Lipnitskaya, Vyacheslav P. Machnev, Anatoly I. Zolotovsky, Vladislav G. Moskovsky, Nikolai N. Naumenko
  • Patent number: 4425059
    Abstract: The invention concerns the removal of a concrete covering applied to an underlying surface provided with an anti-corrosion coating, for example that of a hydrocarbon-conveying pipe.The coating is removed by making trenches in the concrete to divide it into removable elements, the trenches being made using a cylindrical milling cutter having a longitudinal diamond-faced toothing and provided with a central stud of tungsten carbide projecting axially from the end of the cutter. In use the stud contacts the surface to prevent the surface being damaged by the toothing on the cutter as the cutter is moved transversely across the surface. To initiate a concrete covering removal operation, a hole is first drilled through the covering perpendicular to the surface for receiving the stud. The cutter is then moved perpendicularly to the surface through the concrete with the stud projecting into the drilled hole and until the stud contacts the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: Compagnie Francaise des Petroles
    Inventors: Claude Colas, Guy Herve, Jean-Louis M. Caputi, Bruno de Sivry
  • Patent number: 4327703
    Abstract: A method of preparing the upper end of a concrete column containing elongated reinforcing elements for connection to a cast-in-place beam supported by the column. The method comprises the steps of determining the elevation at which the column is to engage the beam, severing the column a distance above said elevation, axially core drilling the column to said elevation, scoring the outside of the column at the elevation by use of an abrasive saw, crushing the shell of the column about the area previously core-drilled to fracture the concrete and free the elongated reinforcing elements, and finally bending the elongated reinforcing elements into a position in which they tie into the cast-in-place beam structure to be supported by the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Inventor: Allen L. Destree
  • Patent number: 4177789
    Abstract: Thin sections of marble or like stone are made by sawing of a block to produce preliminary slabs which are held together, either by integral bridging portions, bonded base portions, or external shoring, while a spacer material, for example resin, is introduced into the clefts between the slabs. A second sawing operation then divides each slab into two halves, which can be ground and polished before separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Inventor: Giuseppe Marocco
  • Patent number: 4020317
    Abstract: A method of mining rock utilizes a high-intensity electron beam to break the rock. The electron beam is directed onto the surface of the rock, and has sufficient energy either to ablate the rock at the zone of beam impingement and generate an ablation pressure that is sufficiently high to fracture the rock or to expand thermally the rock and generate a dynamic pressure in a lateral direction to fracture the rock. The electron beam is moved along the surface of the rock at a speed in phase with the speed of crack propagation in the rock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: New Mexico Tech Research Foundation
    Inventor: Stirling A. Colgate
  • Patent number: 3954096
    Abstract: Method of working, forming, and finishing single crystals which are able to sublimate. The single crystal is acted upon by an instrument the temperature of which is the same or higher than the temperature at which the single crystal sublimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1973
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1976
    Assignee: Ceskoslovenska akademie ved
    Inventors: Cestmir Barta, Oldrich Liska, Jaroslav Louda, Emil Ryttnauer, Jan Zemlicka