IP Library Granted Patent US 6,978,529
Granted Patent B1
US 6,978,529 · App. 10/670,542 · Granted Dec 27, 2005

Preparation at a jobsite to replace a kitchen countertop

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Patent No.
US 6,978,529
App. No.
10/670,542
Granted
Dec 27, 2005
Kind
B1
Abstract

Making accessible for replacement of a marble or like material constituted kitchen countertop at a jobsite, the transit in a truck of a construction material-cutting saw and a slightly oversized slab of the construction material to the jobsite, at which use is made of the removed kitchen countertop as a template on the slab as a cutting guide for the saw.

Claims (13)

1. A method for a factory to replace a jobsite article of manufacture comprising the steps of:

A. designating for replacement a marble kitchen countertop of a known size constituted by a peripheral edge thereabout in a known dwelling constituting said jobsite;

B. transporting to said jobsite in a truck

(1) a marble-cutting saw having

(a) a marble cutting means; and

(b) a marble-support means in cutting relation to said marble cutting means; and

(2) a slab of marble from a factory characterized in having confines exceeding said known size of said kitchen countertop in supported relation upon said marble-support means;

C. removing said kitchen countertop designated for replacement from its location in said dwelling;

D. positioning said thusly removed kitchen countertop in superposed relation upon and within said confines of said marble slab so as to present for demarcation a peripheral edge oversize of the slab relative to said kitchen countertop;

E. demarcating, by using as a template said positioned kitchen countertop, a cutting guideline in parallel relation to said kitchen countertop peripheral edge on said marble slab;

F. cutting, by using said marble-cutting saw, along said cutting guideline; and

G. replacing at said location vacated by said kitchen countertop in said dwelling said thusly cut marble slab;

whereby there results in said marble slab at said jobsite an article of manufacture serving as a replacement for said kitchen countertop removed from said dwelling.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 8, 2010
From: THE INNOVATIVE COMPANIES LLC
To: INNOVATIVE GLOBAL BRANDS, LLC; C/O WOODSIDE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
Reel/Frame 024202/0400 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 8, 2010
From: INNOVATIVE GLOBAL BRANDS, LLC
To: IGB HOLDINGS, LLC
Reel/Frame 024202/0431 →
AMENDED & RESTATED SECURITY AGREEM Recorded Feb 24, 2004
From: INNOVATIVE STONE SURFACES LLC
To: SIGNATURE BANK
Reel/Frame 015044/0130 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2004
From: PEARSE, KAREN
To: THE INNOVATIVE COMPANIES LLC
Reel/Frame 014945/0909 →