Unitary weather-resistant decorative laminate and method of making same

Claim 1

A UNITARY, HEAT- AND PRESSURE-CONSOLIDATED, WEATHERRESISTANT DECORATIVE LAMINATED ARTICLE WHICH COMPRISES: (I) A RIGIDITY-IMPARTING BASE MEMBER, (II) A PRINT SHEET MEMBER BONDED TO SAID BASE MEMBER AND COATED WITH A SUBSTANTIALLY CURED COMPOSITION WHICH, IN ITS UNCURED STATE, IS A CURABLE ADHESIVE MIXTURE COMPRISING (A) A REACTIVE, WATER-INSOLUBLE ESSENTIALLY LINEAR COPOLYMER OF (1) FROM ABOUT 50% TO 98% BY WEIGHT OF A MONOETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED HARDENIING COMONOMER CONTAINING NO FUNCTIONAL GROUPS REACTIVE WITH COMPONENT (B), AS DEFINED HERINBELOW, (2) FROM ABOUT 50% TO 2% BY WEIGHT OF A MONOETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED COMONOMER CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE FUNCTIONAL GROUP REACTIVE WITH COMPONENT (B), AND (3) FROM ABOUT 0% TO 45% BY WEIGHT OF A MONOETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED SOFTENING COCMONOMER CONTAINING NO FUNCTIONAL GROUPS REACTIVE WITH COMPONENT (B), WHEREIN THE SUM OF THE AMOUNTS OF (1), (2) AND (3) IS 100%, AND (B) A CROSS-LINKING AMOUNT OF A MEMBER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF A 3,4-EPOXYCYCLOHEXYLMETHYL 3,4-EPOXYCYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLATE AND HEXAMETHOXYLMETHYLEMELAMINE, AND (III) A SUBSTANTIALLY TRANSPARENT TOP FILM OF ADHERABLE POLYVINYL FLUORIDE, AN ADHERABLE SIDE OF WHICH IS DIRECTLY BONDED TO SAID PRINT SHEET MEMBER BY MEANS OF SAID ASHESIVE MIXTURE.