Tile construction

Claim 1

A UNIFYING CONSTRUCTION WHEREBY A MULTIPLICITY OF DISCRETE TILE ARE COOPERATIVELY COMBINED INTO AN INTEGRATED READILY HANDLEABLE ARTICLE OF ENHANCED UTILITY AND APPEARANCE, COMPRISING: A PLURALITY OF DISCRETE TILE EACH HAVING A FRONT FACE, A REAR FACE AND SIDE EDGES, THE REAR FACE OF EACH TILE INCLUDING A RECESSED SURFACE STARTING AT A SIDE EDGE; A MULTIPLICITY OF SUCH DISCRETE TILE BEING ARRANGED WITH THEIR EDGES IN ALIGNED SPACED RELATION AND WITH THEIR BACK FACES IN A COMMON PLANE; AND ELONGATED, INDIVIDUALLY RIGID METALLIC ELEMENTS OF T SECTION HAVING THEIR OPPOSITELY DIRECTED LIPS EXTENDING INTO OPPOSING RECESSES OF ADJACENT TILE AND THEIR MEDIAL LEG EXTENDING BETWEEN THE SPACED EDGES OF ADJACENT TILE, SAID METALLIC ELEMENTS BEING FIRMLY BONDED TO THE RECESSED SURFACES BY A CEMENTING MATERIAL AND THE ABUTTING CONTACT OF THE SURFACES OF SAID METAL ELEMENTS WITH THE SURFACES OF SAID TILE BEING THE SOLE MEANS FOR PRECISELY POSITIONING SAID TILE IN SAID ALIGNED RELATION; AND A PREFORMED, RESILIENT, LONGITUDINALLY GROOVED JOINT FILLING MEMBER CARRIED BY SAID MEDIAL LEG AND SEALING THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID SPACED EDGES OF TILE.