Patent ID: 8852368

Claim:
A method of making a fabric reinforcement comprising: a) providing a plurality of glass yarns; b) extruding a substantially uniform thickness of a softened polyolefin based polymeric composition over said glass yarns to form coated glass yarns, the softened polyolefin based polymeric composition comprising: i) about 70-80 wt % heterophasic polypropylene copolymer; ii) about 10-30 wt % polypropylene homopolymer; iii) about 0-5 wt % ethylene-olefin copolymer; iv) about 2-4 wt % maleic anhydride-g-polypropylene; v) about 0-20 wt % inorganic filler; and vi) about 500-1500 ppm vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoroalkene copolymer; and c) forming a laid scrim with said coated yarns.