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US 5,288,534 AGranted
Handy, multi-pupose tile installation spacers
OwnerB. Armen Tavshanjianinventor
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Abstract
A tile spacer includes a platform (10) having opposite coplanar surfaces (11, 12) on which are disposed a straight spacer (13) and a corner spacer, either a cross-shaped spacer (14) or a tee-shaped spacer 15, respectively. One leg of the corner spacer (14, 15) is coaligned with the straight spacer (13) so as to assist in aligning either of the spacers while using the other spacer as a handle. The spacer (13) and the coaligned leg of the spacers (14, 15) may extend beyond the platform so as to assist aligning the spacer (13) when using the spacer (14, 15) as a handle.
Claims10
A tile spacer formed of a single piece of semi-rigid material comprising:
- a platform portion having coplanar, flat surfaces disposed on opposite faces thereof;
- a straight spacer element comprising a raised rigid extending outwardly from and substantially across one of said surfaces;
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- a corner spacer element comprising a pair of raised transverse ridges extending outwardly from and substantially across the other of said surfaces;
- said spacer elements having a depth extending outwardly of said surfaces which is a significant fraction of the depth of the tile to be spaced thereby and a width equal to the width of intertile grout line which is intended to separate the tiles to be spaced thereby.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.