Patent ID: 11883979
Assignee: nan
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 42:
43. An apparatus comprising:
a tool device configured to be used in the manufacturing of engineered stone slabs; and
wherein the tool device is configured to travel in an x-y plane in order to create a physically disrupted region in a mixture of aggregate minerals;
wherein the tool device has a mechanism which is configured to vary a width of the physically disrupted region of the mixture while traveling in the x-y plane;
wherein the tool device is a carving device with a V-shaped component having a vertex which is configured to cut through the mixture of aggregate minerals and thereby create the physically disrupted region when the carving device travels in the x-y plane;
wherein the V-shaped component is comprised of:

a first member having a first end and a second end; and
a second member having a first end and a second end;

wherein the first end of the first member is located at the vertex, and the first end of the second member is located at the vertex, such that the first member and the second member come together at their respective first ends;
further comprising a horizontal component to press down on the mixture of aggregate materials as the carving device travels in the x-y plane through the first mixture; and
wherein at least part of the first member and at least part of the second member are configured to be changed in orientation with respect to the vertex, so that the first end of the first member and the first end of the second member remain stationary while the second end of the first member and the second end of the second member move further apart or closer together, to thereby vary the width of the physically disrupted region of the mixture while the tool device is traveling in the x-y plane.