Appeal No. 96-2697
Application 08/215,170
mixture, and the sum of TEOS and TEOG is 20% by volume of the
total mixture. Therefore, the ratio of volume of water to sum
of volume of TEOS and TEOG is 1.5% divided by 20% which equals
0.075.
Thus, the originally disclosed preferred embodiment
clearly meets the ratio limitation of less than 0.80 as
recited in claim 1. In fact, the range of volume percentages
in the claims are so large that the ratio of one component to
another can obviously vary over a very large range as well.
The original disclosure and claims clearly allowed for the
selection of components by volume which would meet the
specific claimed ratios recited in the claims. The original
disclosure permitted ratio values to be much larger than the
specific ratios now being claimed. In other words, the
present claims represent a narrower range of values than was
included within the original disclosure. We find that
the volume percentage ranges as disclosed and claimed would
permit ratios to cover a wide spectrum of values including the
values set forth in the claims. We also find that the
preferred embodiment of the disclosure meets the values
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