Patent ID: 7691944

Claim:
A method of repairing, inserting, assembling or coating an article, the method comprising: placing a thermoplastic or elastomeric substrate in a mold; placing a primer in the mold, the primer comprising a film of an epoxy-modified polymer comprising an epoxy compound grafted to a polyolefin homopolymer or a polyolefin copolymer consisting of two or more olefin monomers, the epoxy compound being grafted through a coupling agent, the coupling agent comprising an unsaturated carboxylic acid or anhydride, the epoxy compound selected from the group consisting of one or more of diglycidyl ether of bis-phenol A, diglycidyl ether of p-aminophenol, N,N,N′,N′-tetraglycidyl-4,4′-methylene-bis-benzene amine, 4-glycidyloxy-N,N′-diglycidylaniline, tetraglycidyl diamino diphenyl methane, diglycidyl ether of bis-phenol A novolac resin, epoxy phenol novolacs, epoxy cresol novolacs, polynuclear phenolepoxy and hydantoin epoxy; placing a repair, insertion, assembly or coating material in the mold; and, heating to form a molded article.