Patent ID: 8597455

Claim:
A process for manufacturing a translucent building material comprising corrugated cardboard, the process comprising the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of corrugated cardboard pieces, each of the cardboard pieces comprising (i) a corrugated sheet defining flutes and (ii) at least one linerboard; (b) thereafter, holding together the corrugated cardboard pieces to define a rough block having the flutes of at least two adjacent cardboard pieces aligned in a common direction; (c) thereafter, saturating the rough block with an impregnating agent to form a working block; (d) thereafter, machining the working block to define a finished block having a cross-section with a precise geometric shape; and (e) thereafter, slicing the finished block at a predetermined angle to the direction of the flutes into slices having a consistent thickness to define a plurality of tile components.