MUMBAI, India, Aug. 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517046001 A) filed by Toncelli, Luca, Bassano del Grappa, Italy, on May 13, for 'method and plant for manufacturing slabs made of stone or stone-like agglomerate material and having veins and surface chromatic effects and slab so obtained.'
Inventor(s) include Toncelli, Luca.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 1, under issue no. 31/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Method and plant for manufacturing slabs (S) made of stone or stone-like agglomerate material and having veins (V) and surface chromatic effects (C), the method comprising the steps of: distribution, on a temporary support (1), of at least one layer of mix (M1, M2) comprising a binding resin, formation of veins (V) in the at least one layer of mix (M1, M2), compaction of the at least one layer of mix (M1, M2), catalysis of the binding resin of the mix (M1, M2), cooling of the at least one layer of mix (M1, M2) to obtain a hardened slab (S) having a surface layer (S1) and a main body (S2) in which the veins (V) are formed, machining of the visible surface of the surface layer (S1) by means of sizing and/or smoothing and/or polishing, application of a disperse ink containing pigments at least on the machined surface and drying of the disperse ink and penetration, by means of diffusion, of the pigments of the disperse ink in the surface layer (S1) of the slab (S) by means of a phase transition so as to produce the chromatic effects (C)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 12, 2024, under International application No.PCT/IB2024/050325.
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