Patent ID: 8512613

Claim:
A method of making a graphic billet, comprising: providing a plurality of graphic molds, each graphic mold including: an inner mold cavity having at least one injection port and an exit; an outer mold cavity having at least one injection port and an exit, the outer mold cavity being separated from the inner mold cavity by at least one cavity wall, wherein the outer mold cavity surrounds the inner mold cavity; forcing a first moldable material having a first color from a first storage vessel through the at least one injection port of the inner mold cavity of a selected graphic mold from the plurality of graphic molds; forcing a second moldable material having a second color from a second storage vessel through the at least one injection port of the outer mold cavity of the selected graphic mold; forming a moldable segment having a cross-sectional graphic from the forced first moldable material and the forced second moldable material simultaneously exiting from the exit of the inner mold cavity and the exit of the outer mold cavity of the selected graphic mold; arranging a plurality of moldable segments in an array to produce a moldable billet having a combined cross-sectional graphic; operating an inanimate extruder configured to receive the moldable billet, the extruder being operable to extrude the moldable billet to form an elongated extrusion wherein the combined cross-sectional graphic is substantially present in the extrusion in reduced scale.