Support plate for installing tile
AssigneeLaticrete International, Inc.
InventorSean P. Boyle
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Abstract
A support for installing facing materials such as ceramic tiles on a substrate, such as, floors, walls and ceilings. The support plate has a plurality of spaced apart raised portions and recesses in the plate material, and a plurality of openings extending through the top surface and bottom surface of the plate material. The openings exposing a mat layer attached to the bottom of the support plate. Support plates of the invention are used for tile installations between a substrate and tile. Thin-set mortar that is used to secure the tile to the support plate flows into the recesses and into the openings forming a continuous bond between the mortar, openings and mat layer to provide a strong bond between the support plate, mortar and the tiles.
Claims15
A support plate for installing facing materials on a substrate consisting essentially of:
- a single layer plastic sheet material having a first side and a second side;
- raised portions residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material, the raised portions are a plurality of raised protrusions with each of the plurality of raised protrusions having a curved outer wall forming a non-continuous circle, a curved inner wall forming a non-continuous circle, and a top surface being the single layer plastic sheet material;
- a plurality of adjacent recesses residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material;
- a plurality of recessed slots residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material, each recessed slot having slot sidewalls and a slot surface being the sheet material;
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- an underlay mat of non-woven fabric material having an underlay mat first side bonded to the second side of the single layer plastic sheet material and an underlay mat second side that is only the non-woven fabric material of the underlay mat;
- wherein each recess of the plurality of recesses is connected to three or more adjacent recesses on the single layer plastic sheet material, respectively, via three or more separate recessed slots of said plurality of recessed slots.
A support plate for installing facing materials on a substrate consisting essentially of:
- a single layer plastic sheet material having a first side and a second side;
- raised portions residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material;
- a plurality of adjacent recesses residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material;
- a plurality of recessed slots residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material, each recessed slot having at least slot sidewalls being the sheet material;
- wherein each recess of the plurality of recesses is connected to three or more adjacent recesses on the single layer plastic sheet material, respectively, via three or more separate recessed slots of said plurality of recessed slots;
- an underlay mat of non-woven fabric material having an underlay mat first side bonded to the second side of the single layer plastic sheet material and an underlay mat second side that is only the non-woven fabric material of the underlay mat;
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- wherein the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material is an open top side of the support plate, the first side having a plurality of routing regions residing on the single layer plastic sheet material defined at least by the raised portions and recesses and being exposed by the open top side of the support plate, wherein one or more of the plurality of routing regions at the open top side of the support plate are adapted to receive a component therein.
A support plate for installing facing materials on a substrate consisting of:
- a single layer plastic sheet material having a first side and a second side;
- raised portions residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material, the raised portions are a plurality of raised protrusions with each of the plurality of raised protrusions having a curved outer wall forming a non-continuous circle, a curved inner wall forming a non-continuous circle, and a top surface being the single layer plastic sheet material;
- a plurality of adjacent recesses residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material;
- a plurality of recessed slots residing across the first side of the single layer plastic sheet material, each recessed slot having at least slot sidewalls being the sheet material;
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- an underlay mat of non-woven fabric material having an underlay mat first side bonded to the second side of the single layer plastic sheet material and an underlay mat second side that is only the non-woven fabric material of the underlay mat;
- wherein each recess of the plurality of recesses is connected to three or more adjacent recesses on the single layer plastic sheet material, respectively, via three or more separate recessed slots of said plurality of recessed slots.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.