Patent ID: 8082714

Claim:
A combination comprising: a first tile attached to a surface; a second tile attached to the surface, said first and second tiles being spaced from one another by a gap therebetween; and a tile spacer to be removably positioned in said gap, said tile spacer including a curved body having a center, a bottom surface, a tile-supporting top surface, a wedge-shaped tip at a first end of said curved body, and a tail at the opposite end of said curved body, the height of said curved body between said bottom surface and said tile supporting top surface increasing from the wedge-shaped tip at the first end of said curved body to the tail at the opposite end of said curved body, said tile spacer also including an opening that runs completely through the center of said curved body, said opening surrounded by the bottom surface and the tile supporting top surface of said curved body, said opening being sized so as to lie in the gap between said first and second tiles when said tile spacer is positioned in said gap, the wedge-shaped tip at the first end of said curved body being separated from the tail at the opposite end of said curved body by a space that communicates with the opening through the center of said curved body.