Modular stone surfacing system of block-cut seamless pieces

Abstract

A modular surfacing system provides solid seamless natural stone modular pieces cut from the same stone block for matching coloration and pattern. The pieces are cut into any desired sizes with wide edging of any desirable thickness and solid piece corners as well as mating modular surface tiles and mating modular backsplash tiles. Since all pieces are cut from a thick block of stone, such as marble or granite, horizontal, vertical, and depth cuts may be made of any desired length and shape to create truly matching modular pieces of any desired dimensions.

1 . A modular surfacing system comprising: 
 a series of natural stone modular surfacing pieces all cut from the same natural stone block, the modular pieces securable to an external surface in a surface covering array to form a modular surfacing system, each of the modular surfacing pieces cut into any desired vertical dimensions, any desired horizontal dimensions, any desired depth dimensions, and any desired shapes with adjacent modular pieces bearing matching natural patterns and colorations of the natural stone block from which all of the modular pieces were cut, each of the pieces comprising a solid seamless modular piece cut to mate with the other modular pieces to fit within the surface covering array including solid seamless modular surface tile pieces, solid seamless modular edge rail pieces each having a surface covering portion to mate with the modular surface tile pieces and an edge overhang portion of any desired dimension and shape, and solid seamless rail corner pieces, each having a surface covering portion to mate with the modular surface tile pieces and two orthogonal edge overhang portions of any desired dimension and shape to mate with the modular edge rail pieces.    
   
   
       2 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising solid seamless modular backsplash pieces comprising vertical pieces matching the tile pieces, the surface tile pieces each have at least one side equal in length to a length of a backsplash piece.  
   
   
       3 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the surface covering portion of each of the edge rail pieces comprises a horizontal surface matching the surface tile pieces in thickness and length and the edge overhang portion is configured in a decorative shape, the surface tile pieces each have at least one side equal in length to a length of an edge rail piece.  
   
   
       4 . The system of  claim 4  wherein the rail corner pieces each comprise a horizontal surface matching the surface tile pieces in thickness and length and each of the two edge overhang surfaces is configured in a decorative shape to mate with an adjacent edge rail piece.  
   
   
       5 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the edge rail pieces and the corner pieces each having mating edge overhang portions in an ogee configuration.  
   
   
       6 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the edge rail pieces and the corner pieces each have mating edge overhang portions in a bull nose configuration.  
   
   
       7 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the edge rail pieces and the corner pieces each have mating edge overhang portions in a square corner configuration.  
   
   
       8 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising solid seamless stone skirt pieces of any desired height between the edge overhang portions and an external vertical surface, each of the stone skirt pieces adhered to a back surface of an edge overhang portion.  
   
   
       9 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising a pair of matching orthogonal stone skirt pieces of any of a variety of matching heights between the edge overhang portions of a corner piece and an orthogonal intersection of two external vertical surfaces, the stone skirt pieces adhered to a back portion of each of the edge overhang surfaces.  
   
   
       10 . The system of  claim 1  wherein each of the pieces is pre-sealed with a water based sealer which penetrates into pores of the treated stone surface to form a barrier that is resistant to moisture and stains while allowing complete vapor transmission.  
   
   
       11 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the series of natural stone modular surfacing pieces are all cut from the same natural stone block larger in each dimension than a corresponding dimension of the modular piece so that the modular pieces may be of any desired dimension and shape.