Patent ID: 8623164

Claim:
A method of making a laminated shingle comprising: coating a shingle mat with roofing asphalt to make an asphalt-coated sheet; adhering a reinforcement member to a portion of an upper surface of the asphalt-coated sheet; covering the asphalt-coated sheet, and optionally covering the reinforcement member, with roofing granules to make a roofing granule-covered sheet; dividing the roofing granule-covered sheet into an overlay sheet and an underlay sheet, wherein the overlay sheet has a tab portion normally exposed on a roof and a headlap portion normally covered-up on a roof, the headlap portion having a lower zone adjacent the tab portion and an upper zone adjacent the lower zone, wherein the reinforcement member is adhered to the lower zone of the headlap portion, and wherein the lower zone of the headlap portion has substantially no roofing granules adhered thereto; and laminating the overlay sheet and the underlay sheet to make the laminated shingle.