Patent ID: 8316616

Claim:
A method for forming a brick facade positioning assembly comprising: placing a plurality of bricks within corresponding brick shaped plate recesses on a vacuum forming plate, the brick shaped plate recesses arranged on the vacuum forming plate in a specified wall pattern, wherein the plurality of bricks are positioned within the brick shaped plate recesses in the specified wall pattern with decorative brick surfaces facing away from the vacuum forming plate; placing a plastic film sheet over the bricks where the bricks are interposed between the vacuum forming plate and the plastic film sheet; vacuum forming the plastic film sheet over the bricks to form a custom brick film tray, the custom brick film tray including brick shaped tray recesses in the specified wall pattern, and the plurality of bricks are positioned within the brick shaped tray recesses by the vacuum forming, wherein the decorative brick surfaces are concealed within the brick shaped tray recesses, and vacuum forming includes forming drafted perimeter surfaces of the brick shaped tray recesses between a tray upper surface and a tray lower surface, wherein the tray lower surface is within the brick shaped tray recesses, and a first tray perimeter surface includes a positive draft angle and a second opposed tray perimeter surface includes a negative draft angle, wherein each of the bricks include corresponding drafted sides; and removing the custom brick film tray from the vacuum forming plate, and the plurality of bricks are positioned within the custom brick film tray in the specified wall pattern.