Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for cutting tiles and comprising: a cutting member; a main abutment face of the stand suitable for coming into abutment against one of the sides of the tile; and a support mounted to slide perpendicularly to the cutting axis and supporting a first arm having a first face parallel to the cutting axis and suitable for bearing against the tile to be cut. A second arm is pivotally mounted on the first arm and includes a second bearing face for bearing against a tile to be cut, one of the two arms carrying an angular scale enabling the angle between the second face and the first face to be adjusted, and a device serves to lock relative pivoting between the two arms. The resulting tile cutting machine is versatile.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for cutting tiles and comprising: a stand provided with a bottom for supporting a tile; a cutting member; and a tile-breaking bar secured to the stand, projecting relative to the bottom thereof, and enabling a tile to be broken after it has been cut. According to the invention, the stand has a first notch suitable for receiving a first corner of a tile to be cut, and a slide which is mounted to slide along the tile-breaking bar and which includes a second notch suitable for receiving a second corner of said tile. An application lies in providing a machine enabling a cutting axis to be adapted accurately, simply, and cheaply relative to tiles having two opposite corners.

Abstract: This invention relates to a profiled strip adapted to be used for making the join between two surface coverings making therebetween a determined re-entrant angle, wherein this profiled strip comprises: two bearing sole plates which are made of a hard, semi-rigid material, which are each adapted to be placed below one of the surface coverings and which each present an extension extending in a direction offset angularly by substantially 90.degree.; and a connecting bridge which connects the extensions, which is made of a supple material and which maintains the bearing sole plates angularly offset with respect to the re-entrant angle.One application of the invention is the production of a profiled strip for joining the tiles of two vertical walls.

Abstract: This invention relates to a complex sound-insulating material comprising a first lower sub-assembly, itself comprising at least one layer of a bituminous product, and a second upper layer which covers said first sub-assembly. The first sub-assembly comprises a first upper layer, a first intermediate layer and a first lower layer, whilst a) each of the first upper and lower layers is made of oxidized bitumen reinforced with first fibers and has a surface mass of between 500 and 1000 g/m.sup.2 ; b) the first intermediate layer is made of an organic binding agent, such as a bitumen, and by second fibers which are embedded in said binding agent and are in a non-woven form; and c) the second upper layer is made of an elastic foam.One application of the invention is the production of a sound-insulated tiled flooring.

Abstract: This invention relates to a profiled strip particularly adapted to compensate the relative displacements of surface coverings with respect to the walls, wherein said profiled strip comprises: a generally flat sole plate; two principal limbs which extend from the sole plate, perpendicularly thereto; a bridge for connecting the ends of said principal limbs and two secondary limbs which extend substantially parallel to the sole plate, from the principal limb most remote from the free edge of the sole plate, these two secondary limbs having substantially equal widths; the sole plate and the principal limbs being made of a hard, semi-rigid material, and the connecting bridge being made of a supple material.One application of the invention is production of the zone of connection between a tiled floor and partition.

Abstract: This invention relates to a material for use in the production of a flooring in a building construction.According to the invention, this material comprises an upper layer, an intermediate layer and a lower layer, while: a) each of the upper and lower layers is made of oxidized bitumen reinforced with first fibers and has a surface mass of between 500 and 1000 g/m.sup.2 ; and b) the intermediate layer is made of an organic binding agent, such as a bitumen, and by second fibers, which are embedded in said binding agent and are in non-woven form.One application is constituted by the laying of a tiling not subject to the development of cracks.

Abstract: This invention relates to a machine for cutting tiles, particularly sandstone ones, comprising: a guide rail; a cutting assembly mounted to move along said guide rail, guided by this guide rail and provided with a cutting tool; and a member for breaking the tile after scoring, which comprises two bearings flanges, which is mounted to be adjustable in position with respect to said cutting assembly and which may occupy two positions: a first position, in which the bearing flanges do not bear on the surface of the tile to be broken, and a second position in which, on the contrary, said bearing flanges are in contact with the surface of the tile to be broken, on either side of a longitudinal plane of the cutting assembly passing through the cutting tool and are in such abutment on the surface of the tile as to cause said tile to break. According to the invention, the breaking member is mounted on the cutting assembly itself. One application is the production of a machine making good-quality cuts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool constituted by an elongated body having a first end and a second end, and being provided at each of these ends with means such as a screw thread for removably fixing a holding member or handle, and at its first end with a first cutting point.The second end is equipped with a second cutting point.The invention is applied to the production of a tool for cutting earthenware tiles.

Abstract: This invention relates to a vibrating machine for applying tiles on a bonding agglomerate disposed between a surface to be covered and said tiling, said machine constituted by a frame, by an assembly of rollers which, disposed beneath the frame, are mounted on parallel shafts, and by a vibration generating device coupled to the frame, each shaft being immobilized in the direction of rotation with respect to the frame, and bearing a plurality of rollers separated, one from the following one, by a distance, each of the rollers being in addition mounted to rotate on this shaft. According to the invention: (a) the distances separating the two rollers borne by the same shaft are equal; (b) all the rollers present a common length, the distance separating two successive identical rollers being slightly greater than said length; and (c) the rollers borne by the various shafts are disposed in quincunx. One application of the invention is the production of a machine for high-quality laying of tiles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-purpose tool constituted by a U-shaped frame with two branches joined together by a bar, one branch being extended by an appendix parallel to the bar and equipped at its end with a drilling tool, by a handle assembly extending from the end of the second branch in parallel to the bar and comprising a handle adapted to be either integral with the frame or mounted for rotating thereon, and by an elongated cutting tool with two ends fastenable on the ends of the two branches of the U-shape.The handle comprises a rod of which one threaded end is provided with a shoulder, whereas close to its end, the second branch of the U-shape is provided with a hole traversed by the threaded end of the rod until it contacts the shoulder part, a nut being provided to optionally hold said rod in position on the frame and to selectively immobilize it thereon.The invention finds an application as a tool for drilling an cutting earthenware tiles.