TRANSLUCENT BUILDING MATERIAL
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Abstract
A manufacturing process, and related products, for fabricating translucent articles in the form of tiles. The manufacturing process includes holding together a stack of corrugated cardboard pieces and saturating the cardboard pieces with an impregnating agent. Additional steps may include machining the cardboard pieces to define a block of a desired shape, slicing the block into tile components, and/or coating one or more tile components with a coating material to produce the article. Articles include translucent tiles made of corrugated cardboard pieces saturated with an impregnating agent. The tiles may be arranged to define a surface, such as a floor, a wall, a roof, a lighting installation, an architectural construction element, an architectural aesthetic element, or a solar panel.
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Citations
79 Claims
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1-42. -42. (canceled)
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43. A translucent tile comprising:
a tile component comprising; a plurality of pieces of tubing at least partially coated by an impregnating agent, wherein (i) ends of the pieces of tubing define a surface, and (ii) cross-sections of the tubing pieces intersect the surface such that the tile is translucent. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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44-48. -48. (canceled)
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63. A process for using translucent tile, the process comprising:
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providing a plurality of translucent tiles, each translucent tile comprising a plurality of pieces of tubing at least partially coated by an impregnating agent, ends of the pieces of tubing defining a surface, and a direction of the tubes intersecting the surface such that the tile is translucent through a thickness thereof; and arranging the plurality of translucent tiles to define a tiled surface. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66, 67)
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68. A process for manufacturing a translucent building material comprising tubing, the process comprising the steps of:
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providing a plurality of pieces of tubing, the pieces of tubing having central axes parallel to a longitudinal direction of the pieces of tubing; holding together the pieces of tubing to define a rough block, wherein the central axes of the pieces of tubing are parallel with respect to each other; and at least coating the rough block with an impregnating agent to form a working block. - View Dependent Claims (69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)
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