Patent ID: 7666340

Claim:
A method, comprising: depositing a volume of block-forming media within a media receiving cavity of block forming equipment, wherein the block forming equipment includes a compression case and two compression bodies slideably disposed within a compression body receiving passage of the compression body, wherein the media receiving cavity is jointly formed by a media compressing face of each one of said compression bodies and walls of the compression case defining the compression body receiving passage, wherein said block-forming media includes a curable binding material dispersed therein, wherein curing of the curable binding material is caused by contact with a prescribed activation material and wherein the volume of block forming media is substantially devoid of the prescribed activation material during said depositing of the volume of block-forming media; depositing the prescribed activation material into the media receiving cavity after said block-forming media is deposited into the media receiving cavity, wherein depositing of the prescribed activation material includes causing at least a portion of the prescribed activation material to be dispersed within the volume of the block-forming media, wherein depositing the prescribed activation material includes providing an activation material delivery mechanism within a first one of said compression bodies and extending an activation material delivery device of the activation material delivery mechanism through a delivery device receiving opening within the media compressing face of the first one of said compression bodies and into a delivery device receiving opening within the media compressing face of a second one of said compression bodies and wherein the activation material delivery device has a substantially straight longitudinal axis extending substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the compression body receiving passage; and compressing said block-forming media within the media receiving cavity, wherein said compressing is performed either during depositing of the prescribed activation material or after depositing of the prescribed activation material is completed, wherein the activation material delivery mechanism remains within the delivery device receiving opening of each one of said compression bodies during said compressing.