Appeal No. 96-3702
Application 08/208,688
spreader” recitations in claim 21 are read in the context of
their surrounding claim language and in light of the underlying
disclosure, it is quite clear that the “mandrel expansion collar”
reads on disclosed element 16, 16a and that the “mandrel
spreader” reads on disclosed element 58. The fact that the
terminology used in the specification to describe these elements
might be somewhat inconsistent with the terminology used in the
claim is not sufficient in this case to render claim 21
indefinite.
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