Method in the production of a wall element and a wall tile for use in connection with the method

Abstract

In the production of a wall element being, on its one side, provided with wall-tiles of brick or other suitable wall-facing material, said tiles being rectangular and bedded on the wall element in rows with joint spacing, the method comprising placing the wall element horizontally with the side intended for the tiles facing upwards. This upper side is covered with a layer of mortar for bedding the tiles, after which the tiles are pressed down into the mortar in rows with joint spacing, in such a manner that mortar is forced up laterally of the tiles and fills the joint between the tiles. A wall-tile of brick or other suitable wall-facing material, which is rectangular and intended to be bedded by means of mortar, together with other such tiles, in rows with joint spacing on a prefabricated wall element, and is substantially U-shaped in cross-section. The front face of the tile defines the outer face of the web, while the outer sides of the legs consist of one pair of the opposing sides of the tile. These sides slope outwardly from the front face of the tile.

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