The document discusses the Tiger Stone road printer, a machine invented by a Dutch company that can pave an entire street at once. It works by using gravity to lay bricks in the correct pattern as the machine rolls backwards. Operators stand on the machine and fill its hopper with loose bricks which are then smoothed into place. The road printer makes road construction as easy as laying flooring and can lay about 400 yards of road per day, though the machine is expensive, costing between $75,000-$81,500.

1. Tiger Stone: The Road Printer
Abstract -- The evolution of innovative printing techniques in the three-
dimensional world goes on. Before we reported about the amazing rapid
prototyping revolution, about printers that are able to print complete
buildings and about the inkjet printer for streets. Now there is also the road
printer. The Tiger Stone brick printer makes road construction as easy as laying
laminate flooring. BLDGBLOG considers the invention of the Dutch company to
be a real “road printer”.
Introduction -- Brick roads have been around us for centuries. They are both
durable and treat for the eyes and easy to produceand reuse, cement pavers last a
very long time and they are easy to repair and replace But Now - a -days there are
difficult to find because building them is an arduous and back breaking task.
Engineers are always busy in finding solutions to problem around the world and
strive to decrease the Time consumption to complete a task. One such an
endeavour has resulted in one such machinery which is more than just a symbol of
great engineering it is both cooland awesome “THE TIGER STONE”. As Belgian
manufacture RPS, the machine caries ergonomic benefits for its operators:
“becausethe finishing of the edges is directly done on the machine, the pavers do
not have to get on their knees for fixing the edges “they work in a good ergonomic
position which makes their job much lighter and more efficient and road is filled
and finished instantly”.
MACHINE DESCRIPTION --
The tiger stone is a six meters wide machine that can repave entire street at once,
including edges. The device is amazingly simple to handle. Any person can work
with it within 5 minutes. Naturally the stones fall on the road directly into the

2. appropriate pattern. The tiger stone is a solution for the heavy work that street
pavers in Holland usually have to do manually this machine is known as TIGER
STONE paving machine and is being called‘road printer’ due to the way it
works .
PROCEDURE--
• The RPS6 ROAD PRINTER is a divisible paving machine capable of laying
bricks for roads. As the machine roll backwards ‘GRAVITY’ brings the bricks flat
to rest on the ground.
• A front loader fills the brick hopperwith loose bricks, the bricklayers stand on
the machine and assemble the pattern vertically
• Tiger stone requires 1-3 operators on its platform to provide the machines pusher
slot with looser bricks from the hopper.

3. • The green machine runs entirely on electricity, moving at a speed of 13 feet per a
minute.
• Paving stones are lowered smoothly via a curved ramp into place in the correct
pattern, it selfsteers to keep the road straight and in place.
• Then tamper (or) steamroller pushes the bricks down to secure them in place.
• Bricks roads are experiencing a revival, because they can be reused easily, filter
water and without expanding ice.
• The road printer is capable of creating roads anywhere from 3-20 feet wide.
• As construction workers insert brick into the machine’s forward compartment,
road printer automatically processesthe bricks and splits the assembled road from
its rear.
ADVANTAGES
• The tiger stone brick printer makes road constructions as easy as laying laminate
flooring.

4. • Tiger stone is powered electrically and has very little moving parts therefore the
noise and maintenance is quite less.
• It can lay down about 400 yards of road per day.
DISADVANTAGES --
• The costof the equipment is expensive, it ranges from $ 75000-$ 81500.
CONCLUSION--
Most road projects today involve modifications to existing roadways, and the
planning, operation, and maintenance of such projects often are opportunities for
improving ecological conditions. A growing bodyof information describes such
practices for improving aquatic and terrestrial habitats.