Patent ID: 6968662

Claim:
In a shingle unit suitable for overlapping course installation which is a composite shingle comprising (a) a top sheet having a spaced tab butt portion and an undivided headlap portion having a top free surface and (b) an underlying, undivided backer strip filling the spaces between said tabs and extending upwardly beneath the headlap portion of the top sheet having a top surface and a free under surface, the improvement which comprises said top sheet joined to said backer strip by a first band of adhesive on the lower under surface portion of said tabs and a second, mateable adhesive band on the lower top surface of said backer strip adapted to provide an adhesive-to-adhesive bond between the top sheet and the backer strip of the shingle unit and wherein said composite shingle unit also has a horizontal band of adhesive disposed on the top free surface of said headlap portion in an area of overlapping with a successive shingle unit and a corresponding band of adhesive horizontally disposed on the under free surface of the backer strip in an area which is mateable with the adhesive band on the headlap top free surface of a successive composite shingle unit to form an adhesive-to-adhesive bond between composite shingle units when installed in courses.