Inventors:
Yoshihiro Suzuki - Riverside CA
Masaki Murata - Riverside CA
Assignee:
Maruhachi Ceramics of America - Corona CA
International Classification:
B28D 126
Abstract:
An apparatus for making ceramic tiles for roofs of turrets, including interchangeable cassettes each with a frame, a base mounted thereon and having an upper surface of frustoconical shape, and cutter carriers carrying the tile cutter blades and pivotally mounted on the frame, the tile cutter blades having edges for engaging a tile on the base along a cutting line oblique to a ray of the frustoconical surface, and operable by a drive unit for moving the cutter blades toward each other and into a tile to trim the tile to the shape of an oblique frustoconical segment. A turret roofed with tiles produced by the apparatus. A roofing tile for a turret, with the tile produced by the apparatus.