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.
Claims20
A support plate for installing facing materials on a substrate comprising:
- a sheet material;
- a plurality of spaced apart adjacent raised portions and adjacent recesses residing across the sheet material, each recess open at the top and having a bottom and sidewalls comprising the sheet material, together the sheet material, the adjacent raised portions and the adjacent recesses define a support plate having a thickness extending from a top surface to a bottom surface thereof;
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- a plurality of recessed portions residing below a surface of the spaced apart adjacent raised portions, each of said recessed portions having at least two opposing sidewalls comprising the sheet material and residing between at least two adjacent recesses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.