Geometrical instruments – Gauge – Flooring – floor or wall covering – or molding
Patent
1996-08-13
1997-12-30
Fulton, Christopher W.
Geometrical instruments
Gauge
Flooring, floor or wall covering, or molding
33527, G01B 524, B43L 710
Patent
active
057016801
ABSTRACT:
A tile setter's measuring tool includes a cup slide in the form of an elongate bar having a through-extending passageway along a substantial proportion of its length and a pivot mount at one end, an object guide pivotally mounted to the pivot mount, and a tile cup block slidably engaged to the cup slide by a fastener passing through the passageway, permitting positioning of the tile cup block at a desired orientation and location along the passageway, the tile cup block having an upper surface and a lower surface, each of the upper and lower surfaces being provided with spacers in arrangements that differ from one another. A tile setter may measure a needed tile size from an installed tile to a perimeter object by positioning the object guide adjacent the perimeter object and the tile cup block spacers on the lower surface adjacent an installed tile, repositioning the tool to a tile to be measured with the spacers adjacent a tile edge and defining a tile edge to be cut by the position of the object guide, the spacers providing an adjustment in the measurement to allow for a desired grout width.
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Diller Robert E.
Garcia Glenn M.
Fulton Christopher W.
TNT Tools, Inc.
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