which is sufficiently plastic to be susceptible to penetration by a particulate material under the conditions of this invention without otherwise fracturing the coating when the particulate material is a resin it is suitable for the purposes of this invention to fuse the resin and cause it to merge with the protective coating in some cases such as when the particulate material is a thermosettable coating powder or an uncured thermosettable resin in some other form such as a chip concurrent curing of the liquid protective coating and the particulate material may take place the curing temperature for the fluoropolymers is usually at a pmt in the range of 465 480 u00b0 f about 240 280 u00b0 c the discrete masses of particulate material must therefore be able to withstand such high temperatures as used herein the term u201c discrete masses u201d means individual particles of material as well as masses of particles such as are used in powder gravure coating processes and includes discrete color bodies as well as colorless particles pigmented particulate minerals and resins in the form of granules beads vesiculated beads pellets flakes platelets cylinders coating powders and chips such as coating powder precursor chips are suitable as discrete color bodies for the purposes of this invention the minerals include glass quartz mica pebbles and ceramics the particulate resins include polyesters acrylics nylons polyurethanes polycarbonates solid fluorocarbon resins and solid mixtures of a fluorocarbon and a polymer or copolymer of the acrylate or methacrylate monomers.