A machine (12) for working slabs of natural stone, agglomerate or ceramic material comprises: a work bench (14) adapted to receive a slab to be machined; a machining head (16) comprising a spindle (18); and movement means (20) for moving the machining head (16) above the work bench (14). The spindle (18) comprises coupling means (40) which allow a diamond chain tool (42) to be operatively fixed.

An artistic display system and method of using the system is provided whereby the system includes a display stone, a parallel art object, an image capture device, and an image display device, wherein said parallel art object is displayed on said image display stone.

The present invention is an attachment that reversibly connects to a skid steer, front loader, or other heavy equipment. The attachment allows a user to quickly and efficiently core holes in concrete and asphalt. The attachment comprises a frame assembly that rests upon the surface of concrete being cored and a carriage assembly. The carriage assembly connects a drum saw to the frame assembly. The carriage assembly moves vertically up and down along the length of the frame assembly while coring a hole in concrete. The attachment includes two, three, and four-post embodiments. The three and four-post embodiments provide include a larger frame assembly that provides additional stability to the attachment while allowing the user to quickly reposition the attachment to core additional holes.

An automated plant (10) for cutting and operating flat slabs made from ceramic or the like for typically but not exclusively manufacturing slabs intended for use as coating elements at both civil and industrial levels and for both indoor and outdoor environments, comprising a first macro-area (12) defining an area suitable for storing products consisting of semi-finished slabs or mother-slabs, a second macro-area (14) defining an area for storing auxiliary packing materials or consumable materials for operations or processes on said slabs, a third macro-area (16) defining a production area for processing, packaging, and packing daughter-slabs or sub-formats of slabs obtained from mother-slabs, a fourth macro-area (18) defining a finished product area or store for letting the products coming from the third macro-area (16) pass through/temporarily accumulate, said plant also comprising automatic handling means for slaving and handling materials and semi-finished and finished products between said macro-areas and internally thereto, and a central control unit for programming, managing, and controlling the operation of said macro-areas and the interaction therebetween.

A fishing lure is manufactured by boring a hole through a granite stone body. A straight brass tube that is initially longer than the stone body is initially held in place inside of the hole, such that the axis of the hole and the axis of the brass tube are congruent, by a pair of rubber stoppers located at opposite ends of the hole. Before the second stopper is put into place, a curable liquid adhesive is poured into the annular space between the brass tube and the stone body. The second stopper is then secured to the brass tube at the opposite end of the stone body and he adhesive is allowed to cure. The protruding opposite ends of the brass tube are secured to a lathe, and the outside of the stone body is turned down on the lathe to the desired shape. After the lure body has been shaped and polished, one or both of the protruding ends of the brass tube is shortened to its finished length.

A material shaping machine and a method of mounting a table top to the material shaping machine is disclosed. The machine includes first and second support members extending generally in a vertical direction. A bridge longitudinally extends between the first and the second support members. A carriage is configured to move longitudinally along the bridge. A rotary cutting tool is mounted on the carriage. A work table including a table top having a silicon/epoxy combination material supports a workpiece to be cut by the cutting tool. An actuator moves the rotary cutting tool toward and away from the workpiece positioned on or above the table top and a motor provides rotational motion to the rotary cutting tool.

The present invention is a hydraulically operated splitting device with a piston cylinder unit comprising an extending chamber and a retracting chamber in which a piston is supported, displaceable in an extending direction and a retracting direction, allowing the extending chamber and the retracting chamber to be impinged with pressurized hydraulic medium for moving the piston at a displacement speed, a cylinder housing at which a plurality of pressure pads is supported, displaceable perpendicular to the extending direction and the retracting direction, a wedged lance connected to a piston rod of the piston and mobile with said piston, which engages wedge-shaped pressure areas of the pressure pads complementary to the wedged lance, and moves the pressure pads perpendicular to the extending direction and the retracting direction, a lubrication unit by which lubricant can be inserted from a lubricant reservoir to an area between the wedged lance and the pressure pads, with the splitting device comprising a protective unit by which the displacement speed can be reduced depending on the fill level of the lubricant in the lubricant reservoir.

A system for performing interactions within a physical environment including a robot base that undergoes movement relative to the environment, a robot arm mounted to the robot base, the robot arm including an end effector mounted thereon and a tracking system that measures a robot base position indicative of a position of the robot base relative to the environment. A control system acquires an indication of an end effector destination, and repeatedly determines a robot base position using signals from the tracking system, calculates an end effector path extending to the end effector destination at least in part using the robot base position, generates robot control signals based on the end effector path and applies the robot control signals to the robot arm to cause the end effector to be moved along the end effector path towards the destination.

A brick cleaning system has: a frame; a first saw comprising a first motor and a first saw blade driven by the first motor, the first saw being connected to the frame; a second saw comprising a second motor and a second saw blade driven by the first motor, the second saw being connected to the frame; and a brick cart connected to the frame. The brick cart is configured to hold a brick. The brick cart selectively translates relative to the frame for feeding the brick in a space between the first and second saw blades such that the first and second saw blades remove mortar from opposite sides of the brick. A method for cleaning used bricks is also disclosed.

A bonded wafer production method for producing a bonded wafer having a thin film on a base wafer by forming an ion implanted layer in a bond wafer by implanting at least one of gas ion of a hydrogen ion and a rare gas ion from a surface of the bond wafer and, after directly bonding an ion implanted surface of the bond wafer and a surface of the base wafer together or bonding the ion implanted surface of the bond wafer and the surface of the base wafer together with an insulator film placed therebetween, delaminating the bond wafer at the ion implanted layer, wherein, as at least one of the bond wafer and the base wafer, an epitaxial wafer is used, and, as cleaning of the epitaxial wafer which is performed before the formation of an epitaxial layer, single wafer processing spin cleaning is performed.