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US 5,125,814 AGranted
Brick laying tools
OwnerBorislav Lesterinventor
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A mortar course tool has a tray with a sliding plate which slides under a rectangular open frame surrounding the plate to close a mortar wafer dropping gap formed by the frame while the mortar is being carried to a brick wall; the sliding plate slides away from the frame to open the gap dropping a wafer of mortar of brick top area and mortar course thickness. Runners behind and connected to the frame telescope into sleeves behind and connected to the plate in an arrangement clear of mortar to enable frame and plate to be moved towards and away from each other by means of a cross bar pull handle on each. The perpend gap filling tool is formed as a hopper designed to straddle a perpend gap between two bricks laid on a wall and with a bottom sloping towards a slot which a user places over the perpend gap and pushes mortar into the perpend gap using a spatula; the perpend tool also has two legs projecting downwards in alignment with the slot and the perpend gap to retain mortar and give a finished perpend; two bottom side lugs are provided to locate the perpend tool on laid bricks.
A brick wall mortar course tool for laying a definitive quantity of mortar upon a brick course of a brick wall, the tool comprising a body with a rectangular-shaped tray frame portion formed by side walls and end walls surrounding a bottom opening of dimensions substantially equal to the area and thickness of mortar of a course laid between bricks laid along a brick wall structure, the tray frame portion being opened and closed by a flat bottom plate which is slidable across under the opening and is connected to two side sleeves connected to a movement stop back plate, the said two side sleeves being connected to each other by an inner cross-bar pull handle, each sleeve being mounted upon a runner, the outer end of each runner being connected by an outer cross bar pull handle, the flat bottom plate being movable into a full open position to drop a wafer of mortar onto a brick by moving the inner and outer cross bar pull handles towards each other and into a fully closed position by moving the pull handles away from each other.
A brick wall mortar perpend gap filling tool, the tool comprising an open-top hopper adapted to receive and carry mortar and which is formed by four walls and a floor sloping downwards towards a transverse slot adapted to be placed over a mortar perpend gap betwen bricks laid on a brick wall, means for ramming mortar into the perpend gap via the slot while the mortar course tool is in place on a brick wall course, mortar-retaining legs depending downwardly from each bottom corner of the hopper adjacent each end of the slot, the said legs being positioned to retain mortar in the perpend gap between bricks while the mortar is being placed into the gap.
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