Patents by Inventor D. Geraint Roberts

D. Geraint Roberts has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Drywall tape and drywall joint
    Patent number: 8828892
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a drywall tape having a nonwoven fabric and a reinforcing scrim, wherein the nonwoven fabric has chopped glass fibers laid flat in the nonwoven fabric, the fibers being substantially straight, random laid and bonded to one another to resist forces exerted in random directions, and the reinforcement scrim has elongated reinforcing strands of low profile thickness joined against a side of the nonwoven fabric, such that the scrim and the nonwoven fabric reinforce each other, and reinforce a joint compound in which the drywall tape is imbedded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Dong, D. Geraint Roberts, Garry William Morris, Glenn Stevens
  • Drywall Tape and Drywall Joint
    Publication number: 20080176469
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a drywall tape having a nonwoven fabric and a reinforcing scrim, wherein the nonwoven fabric has chopped glass fibers laid flat in the nonwoven fabric, the fibers being substantially straight, random laid and bonded to one another to resist forces exerted in random directions, and the reinforcement scrim has elongated reinforcing strands of low profile thickness joined against a side of the nonwoven fabric, such that the scrim and the nonwoven fabric reinforce each other, and reinforce a joint compound in which the drywall tape is imbedded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Dong, D. Geraint Roberts, Garry William Morris, Glenn Stevens