Appeal No. 2000-1026
Application 08/979,759
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the final
rejection of claims 1-9 and 11-13, which are all of the claims
remaining in the application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for
making a consolidated wood product comprising coating wood
components with a B-stageable, phenol-formaldehyde resole
resin having a number average molecular weight of between
about 200 and 600, heating the coated wood components to
about 80 to 140EC for a time sufficient to advance the resin
to a B-stage, forming a mat or stack of the wood components
and exposing the mat or stack to a saturated or superheated
steam atmosphere in a hot press and compressing the layup to
form the consolidated wood product. This appealed subject is
adequately illustrated by independent claim 1, which reads as
follows:
1. A method for making a consolidated wood product
comprising coating wood components with a B-stageable, phenol-
formaldehyde resole resin; heating the coated wood components
2
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