Patent ID: 7111435

Claim:
A tile application system comprising: (a) an elongated trim-perimeter guide for establishing a trim section or a perimeter or both, said trim-perimeter guide having a first side surface and a second side surface, a registration channel adjacent to said first side surface and approximately normal to said second side surface, a terminal end on said first side surface wherein said terminal end is at a predetermined distance, referred to as V, from said second side surface and wherein said registration channel has a width of a predetermined distance, referred to as Y; (b) an elongated field guide insertable inside the perimeter established by said trim-perimeter guide, said field guide having a base, a first wall and a second wall having internal surfaces parallel to each other, said first and said second wall extending from said base, a field registration channel between said first wall and said second wall wherein said first wall and said second wall have a length from said base approximately equal to said distance V, wherein said first wall and said second wall have a thickness of a pre-determined distance, referred to as X, and wherein said field registration channel has a width approximately equal to said distance Y; and (c) tile registration means for aligning tiles to a preferred geometric plane prior to final application wherein said tile registration means comprises a bracket having an elongated body, a bracket step on one end of said elongated body, and a tail on another end of said elongated body, said tail having a height and a width wherein said width is greater than said height and wherein said width of said tail is approximately equal to or greater than said distance Y; whereby after said trim-perimeter guide set for trim, or for a perimeter around a substrate to be tiled with one or more tiles bearing a thickness referred to as distance T, or for both and, on a vertical surface, said field guide set within the perimeter, and all guides aligned to respective horizontal and vertical planes, mortar is applied over the substrate and the mortar is registered to said terminal end and to said first wall or to said second wall or to both and wherein one or more said brackets are insertable in and held thereat by said field registration channel or said trim registration channel for aligning tiles.