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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001181431-04-034812
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20040708
FILED AS OF DATE:		20040712

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			VAN SANT R WILLIAM
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001219030

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09225
		FILM NUMBER:		04909209

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		AMCAST INDUSTRIAL CORP
		STREET 2:		7887 WASHINGTONVILLAGE DR
		CITY:			DAYTON
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			45459
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9372917000

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			FULLER H B CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000039368
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ADHESIVES & SEALANTS [2891]
		IRS NUMBER:				410268370
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MN
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1130

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1200 WILLOW LAKE BLVD
		CITY:			ST PAUL
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55110-5132
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6126453401
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        <issuerName>FULLER H B CO</issuerName>
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            <rptOwnerZipCode>55164-0683</rptOwnerZipCode>
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            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
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                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
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                    <value>4291.81</value>
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                    <value>D</value>
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                <value>Stock Units</value>
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                    <value>27.53</value>
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        <footnote id="F1">Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan:  These stock units were acquired pursuant to the H.B. Fuller Company's Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan.  These stock units will be converted into shares of common stock upon retirement, death, disability or certain specified events, all as defined in such plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Deferred Compensation Plan: These units convert into shares of common stock on a 1-for-1 basis.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">1998 Directors' Stock Plan Dividend Reinvestment: This amount includes shares acquired pursuant to a dividend reinvestment feature of the 1998 Directors' Stock Plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan Dividend Reinvestment:  This amount includes stock units acquired pursuant to a dividend equivalent feature of the Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Patricia L. Jones, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2004-07-12</signatureDate>
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, R. William Van Sant, hereby constitute and appoint Patricia L. Jones, Albert P.L. Stroucken, Steven E. Suckow and John A. Feenan, and each of them, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for me and in my name, place and stead, to sign any reports on Form 3 (Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership of Securities), Form 4 (Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership of Securities) and Form 5 (Annual Statement of Beneficial Ownership of Securities) relating to transactions by me in Common Stock or other securities of H.B. Fuller Company, and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the appropriate securities exchange, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or their substitutes, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all in
tents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratify and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  This Power of Attorney shall be effective until such time as I deliver a written revocation thereof to the above-named attorneys-in-fact and agents.

Dated:  October 2, 2003				/s/ R. William Van Sant


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