ARTIFICIAL STONE SLAB COMPRISING VEINS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME

• Main Authors: ORTOLÀ MASCARELL, Alberto, GELPI FERREIRA, Angel, SANCHIS BRINES, Francisco
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 28.03.2018
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CEMENTS; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDINGMATERIALS; CONCRETE; DECORATIVE ARTS; LIME, MAGNESIA; METALLURGY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; REFRACTORIES; SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS, SLAG, OR MIXTURESCONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SLAG; SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE; WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an artificial stone slab with veins comprises preparing a moldable hardenable fluid mixture of a first material (11); pouring said mixture into a mold (20) an upper face being exposed; engraving the exposed upper face with a predefined precise pattern of grooves (30) coinciding with a pattern of thin veins to be obtained; impregnating at least the inner faces (31) of said grooves (30) with a moldable hardenable fluid mixture of a second material (12), the color of both materials being different causing the collapse and closure of the grooves, a visible pattern of thin veins of a second material with a natural look being left behind; curing the artificial stone slab by subjecting it to vibration, compression and vacuum until the fluid mixtures of the first material and of the second material are hardened.