Patent ID: 8828537

Claim:
A low profile reinforcing tape for reinforcing joint compound including low profile reinforcing yarns joined together with a web adhesive binder to form an open fabric or scrim having openings for passage of the joint compound, wherein the openings are bounded by the low profile reinforcing yarns, the improvement comprising: the low profile reinforcing yarns being arranged in a plain weave of twisted warp yarns and twisted weft yarns; the low profile reinforcing yarns have yarn counts of not greater than 33 tex for one, and not greater than 66 tex for the other; the tex of the warp yarns and the tex of the weft yarns are interchangeable, one to the other; and the plain weave has a thickness of not greater than 0.18 mm; the low profile reinforcing yarns being coated with a first coating of a polymer having a suppleness, wherein the polymer suppleness increases suppleness of the tape low profile reinforcing for the tape to assume a low profile by lying flatly; the low profile reinforcing yarns being coated with a second coating of an adhesive wettable in water adding tensile strength to the low profile reinforcing yarns and adding resistance to pull out of the low profile reinforcing yarns from the joint compound; and a pressure sensitive adhesive on at least a back side of the low profile reinforcing tape.