Protective lath for making a plaster joint when plastering a wall

Abstract

A protective lath for protection againt dirt and damage during wall plastering and against penetration of moisture at the joint to building components of different material, such as wood, plastics or metal, in particular to window and door frames or rafter ends, on which the plaster abuts; the protective lath is made of hard synthetic resin injected by an extruder into a continuous flow mold and carries a strip for adhering it to such a building component as well as a lateral protective tab which can be broken off by hand via a notch-type incision; a top part also made of hard synthetic resin is pressed onto a bottom part of the protective lath which carries said adhesive strip, with a reinforcing fabric, e.g. of synthetic resin coated silk glass, that extends as far as possible into the plaster layer, being interposed between said parts, and the free end of the top part being resiliently latched in an undercut nose piece of a side wall of the bottom part.

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