Patent ID: 11858852
Assignee: ICON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC B  C

Claim 12:
13. A method for preparing a three-dimensional printing material to build a structure comprising:
providing a system including:
a hopper;
a tubular member;
an auger powered by an auger motor; and
an electric reactor assembly;
wherein the system is mounted within a robotic motion platform;

grinding in situ igneous anorthosite rock, the igneous anorthosite rock being predominantly Labradorite, into an amount of aluminosilicate powder;
placing the amount of aluminosilicate powder into the hopper;
directing the aluminosilicate powder through the tubular member and into the electric reactor assembly via the auger;
heating the aluminosilicate powder in the electric reactor assembly to a temperature between approximately 1,100° C. and approximately 1,750° C. to form a molten aluminosilicate material;
maintaining the molten aluminosilicate material at the temperature between approximately 1,100° C. and approximately 1,750° C. for a minimum of 45 minutes;
extruding the molten aluminosilicate material from the system through a nozzle mounted on the robotic motion platform;
cooling the molten aluminosilicate material to form a hardened aluminosilicate material to the hardened state at a rate of about 300° C. per minute for about two minutes; and
extruding additional molten aluminosilicate material through the nozzle to form additional beads of molten aluminosilicate material stacked atop one another to form the building structure.