Cleat for finishing off the ceramic tiles on a step

• US 4,858,404 A
• Filed: 03/13/1989
• Issued: 08/22/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Werner Schluter
• Original Assignee: Werner Schluter
• Inventors: Schluter, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/323,204
• Time in Patent Office: 162 Days
• Field of Search: 52/179, 52/182
• US Class Current: 52/179
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 11/163 Protecting means for edges or corners

Abstract

There is disclosed a cleat having a Z-shaped cross section for finishing off the ceramic tiles on a step or the like, the cleat having a thin fastening leg provided with breakthroughs and adapted to underlie the ceramic tile on the step, perpendicular thereto a closing off-leg extending in front of the tile on the step and perpendicular to the latter a step-on leg at the edge of the step. The step-on leg has molded onto its top side a soft elastic cover strip which covers the cleat which, as a whole, is manufactured in a single piece from plastic material and which has a lip downwardly projecting beyond the step-on leg which acts with prestress against the cleat. A colored insert strip is embedded in the cover strip in the center in the lengthwise direction and covered by a transparent plastic strip.

Claims

1. A stair cleat formed in a single unit of plastic material and having a Z-shaped cross section for use in the nose of a stair wherein the stair riser and the stair tread are formed of ceramic tiles having relatively thin layers of adhesive adhering the tiles to the unfinished step and adhesive filling the gaps between the stair cleat and the stair riser and between the stair cleat and the stair tread, the stair cleat comprising:

a thin fastening leg having breakthroughs therein and adapted to underlie the ceramic tile of the stair tread;

a closing off leg perpendicular to said fastening leg extending in front of the stair tread tile;

a step-on leg perpendicular to said closing off leg extending at the nose of the step;

a slip inhibiting cover strip provided on the top side of said step-on leg and formed of a soft elastic plastic material molded onto said stair cleat and covering the same; and

a lip formed together with said slip inhibiting cover strip projecting beyond said step-on leg to press against the ceramic tile of the stair riser and cover the adhesive gap between the stair riser and the stair cleat.

2. The cleat as defined in claim 1, further comprising a colored insert strip arranged embedded in about the center in said cover strip and covered by a transparent plastic strip.

3. The cleat as defined in claim 2, wherein said transparent plastic strip is molded onto said cover strip.

4. The cleat as defined in claim 1, which further comprises clamping bridges forming chambers between one another molded onto the botom side of said step-on leg.