Appeal No. 96-1320
Application 08/081,744
advanced by appellants and the examiner and agree with
appellants that the aforementioned rejection is not well
founded. Accordingly, we do not sustain this rejection.
Holmes discloses a method for joining two fiberglass
reinforced plastic (FRP) parts such that the seam line is not
visible or is barely visible and such that a coating over the
joined parts does not have defects such as paint pops and
sinks (col. 1, lines 38-43). According to this method, the
parts are joined by use of a polyester or polyurethane
adhesive, and a cured epoxy resin/polyamide resin/amine
composition is formed
over the seam at which the parts are joined (col. 1, lines 50-
58; col. 3, lines 44-47; col. 3, line 65 - col. 4, line 17).
In an example, the adhesive used to join the parts was cured
(col. 4, lines 50-57) and then "sanded to remove the remaining
hill or rounded bond portion at the seam to obtain the best
finish so as to retain the originally desired contour and
surface finish" (col. 4, lines 61-64). A polyepoxy
resin/polyamide resin/amine composition then was applied to
the seam and was cured, cooled, and sanded to restore the
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