Clarke L Masters

US Patent:

59445092, Aug 31, 1999

Filed:

Sep 26, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/938681

Inventors:

Clarke S. Masters - Soquel CA
John B. Menig - Aptos CA

International Classification:

F23D 316

US Classification:

431288

Abstract:

The method disclosed herein relates to sculpting an image on a wax article such as a candle. The sculpting is done by pressure blasting entrained cutting grit through a mask or a sequence of masks. If a sequence of masks is sued to form the sculpted image, a sequence of colored pigments are entrained in the blast to impart different colors to the part of the image exposed by each mask in the sequence. A wax article of manufacture is produced having a concave sculpted surface with embedded colored cutting grit occupying predetermined portions of the image.