Patent ID: 6568455
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: A44C

Abstract:
A method, for making personalized charms and other jewelry, comprising the steps of:digitally capturing an image of a person or other object and creating a digital profile of the object or part of the object; processing the digital profile with image software and creating a numerical profile, wherein the numerical profile comprises a set of instructions for a prototyping machine; executing the set of instructions on the prototyping machine wherein the machine produces a block of wax containing, a first wax that is a replica of the object or part of the object, and a second wax that surrounds the replica and comprises the remaining portions of the block of wax; melting the second wax in a process that leaves the first wax intact so that the replica of the object or part of the object remains; surrounding the first wax with jeweler's burnout investment and heating the first wax and investment so that the first wax burns away and leaves behind a cavity in the investment that is in the shape of the replica; using the investment as a mold in a casting process to produce a metal replica of the object or part of the object.