Patent ID: 8828892

Claim:
A drywall tape to reinforce a drywall joint, comprising: a nonwoven fabric component having a first thickness and comprising randomly oriented chopped glass fibers bonded together with a resinous adhesive to resist forces exerted in random directions, wherein the chopped glass fibers are laid flat in the nonwoven fabric; a reinforcement lattice component having a second thickness and comprising elongated reinforcing strands and a binder joining the strands; wherein the fabric component and the reinforcement lattice component are laminated together; and a thickness of the fabric component and the reinforcement lattice component laminated together comprises a compressed thickness being less than a sum total of the first thickness of the fabric component and the second thickness of the reinforcement lattice component, wherein the compressed thickness is provided by the fibers of the fabric component being flattened to oval shapes, and by the reinforcing strands of the reinforcement lattice component being flattened to oval shapes.