Optics: measuring and testing – Sample – specimen – or standard holder or support – Fluid containers
Patent
1976-03-01
1977-08-23
Corbin, John K.
Optics: measuring and testing
Sample, specimen, or standard holder or support
Fluid containers
23230R, 23259, 250576, 356 36, G01N 110
Patent
active
040436780
ABSTRACT:
A multichamber cuvette for maintaining in independent and separate condition at least two reactants, one of which may be a sample, until such time that it is desired to mix them for reaction with each other for photometric analysis in the cuvette. At least one of the chambers has a pair of optical quality windows aligned with one another for analysis of the then liquid contents extending between the windows. The cuvette body is of upright construction, defining at least two such chambers laterally of one another, open at the top for filling separately or simultaneously, and interconnected adjacent their lower extremities by a passageway of inverted U shape. The passageway is of an effective height exceeding the highest filling level of each chamber by a distance at least as great as any capillary rise in the passageway beyond such level of the particular liquid in that chamber. Accidental mixing of the chamber contents is prevented by entrapment of air in the passageway by the respective liquids in the chambers and partially filling the legs of the passageway. Mixing through the passageway is effected by the forced flow of fluids therethrough from one chamber to the other while one of the chambers is vented to the atmosphere at the top. The passageway is so configured and also dimensioned in cross section as to allow for the free flow of liquid between the chambers.
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Farrell Gregory A.
Gordon Abraham
Corbin John K.
Koren Matthew W.
Rockwell Stephen E.
Technicon Instruments Corporation
Tedesco S. P.
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