Appeal No. 2000-0343
Application 08/849,008
Gaylord ‘685 discloses a method for adhering together
sheets or chips of wood by impregnating the wood with a
polymerizable complex of a monomer combination such as maleic
anhydride and styrene, and carrying out the polymerization
through a charge transfer mechanism (abstract; col. 2, lines
20-21; col. 5, lines 8-25). Gaylord ‘685 teaches that “when
the polymerizable complex contains groups which are reactive
with hydroxyl groups on the cellulose substrate, such as
anhydride groups, these groups in the resultant polymer react
with the cellulosic hydroxyl groups to form stable, covalent
ester bonds as well as hydrogen bonds” (col. 2, lines 29-34).
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