Patent ID: 9587407
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: E04F

Claim:
1. A method for assembling a number of substantially uniform tiles to a substrate comprising the steps of: preparing a number of said tiles, each said tile having an outside surface and an inside surface intended to be disposed adjacent a surface of said substrate; providing a flexible backer member having opposing outside and inside surfaces; securing all of the inside surfaces of the tiles to the outside surface of the backer member at predetermined intervals, wherein the inside surface of the backer member is free of the tiles or securing all of the outside surfaces of the tiles to the inside surface of the backer member at predetermined intervals, wherein the outside surface of the backer member is free of the tiles; stacking the tiles one atop the next, with the backer member being folded between adjoining tiles, and with faces of each of the tiles oriented in the same direction, juxtaposing a stack of the tiles and the backer member to the substrate to which the tiles are to be assembled; applying tension to the folded backer member, so as to successively remove individual ones of said tiles from the stack of the tiles, and so as to juxtapose the tiles to the substrate at predetermined intervals; and securing the tiles to the substrate to form a single layer of tiles.