Patent ID: 8578674
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: E04F

Abstract:
1. A tile installing device for bracing, spacing and leveling tiles during installation on a ceiling substrate comprising in combination: a bracer having an elongate threaded substrate penetrating screw with a tapered first end portion for penetrating a substrate and an opposing second end portion, the second end portion carrying a twisting means for rotating the screw axially to penetrate the substrate, the twisting means having a diameter greater than a diameter of the threaded screw; a spacer having a first surface and an opposing second surface and defining a through hole communicating between the first surface and the second surface, the through hole having a diameter larger than the diameter of the threaded screw and smaller than the diameter of the twisting means for the threaded screw to extend therethrough to removably threadably engage with the ceiling substrate to positionally maintain the tiles in an adhesive between the first surface of the spacer and the substrate, the spacer having a ridge carried on and extending generally perpendicularly from the spacer first surface, the ridge having a side-to-side width equal to a distance adjacent tiles are spaced from one another when installed on the substrate.