Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing – Automated chemical analysis – With conveyance of sample along a test line in a container...
Patent
1996-06-28
1998-02-24
Le, Long V.
Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing
Automated chemical analysis
With conveyance of sample along a test line in a container...
436 43, 436 47, 436174, 436177, 436180, 422 63, 422 65, 422 72, 422100, 422101, 134150, 134157, G01N 128, G01N 3510
Patent
active
057211418
ABSTRACT:
A tube washing system including a tube spinning station having a rotatable chuck and a waste chamber surrounding the chuck for capturing and draining tube fluids expelled from a spun tube driven in rotation by the chuck. The chuck has a body portion and a plurality of spaced apart teeth defining intervening grooves extending through the body portion with at least one of the grooves permitting passage of fluid through the body portion and at least one other of the grooves receives and mechanically connects a projection on an open end of a tube. A pipette for dispensing wash water into a tube is located centrally within the chuck. There is also a tube elevating device located beneath the tube spinning station, the tube elevating device comprising a freely rotatable tube holder, and lift drive motor provided to vertically move the tube holder towards and way from the chuck. The tube used in the washing system has at least one projection provided on its open end which can interlock with a chuck groove. The invention also relates to a method of using the tube washing system to rapidly and efficiently wash a tube and its contents.
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Babson Arthur L.
Palmieri Thomas
DPC Cirrus Inc.
Le Long V.
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