System for port and tube holder assembly attachment device
AssigneeLife Technologies Corporation
InventorsTristan Wise, Charles Rhodes
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Abstract
A tube holder assembly includes a base plate, an attachment plate, and an optional securing element. The base plate may include guides into which protrusions of the attachment plate slide to alter the positioning apparatus from an open position to a closed position. The base plate also includes receivers to receive tubular members, which have their movement restrained by the receivers and the securing elements in the closed position. The tube holder assembly may also include a latch to help maintain the closed position during operation.
Claims18
A tube holder assembly, comprising:
- a base plate comprising a perimeter joining a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, the perimeter forming a back portion, two sidewalls, and a first curvature at least partially encircling a hollow portion to create a first receiver, the two sidewalls of the base plate each including either a guide slot or a protrusion;
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- an attachment plate comprising a perimeter joining a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, the perimeter forming a base having an interior surface and an exterior surface and two sidewalls extending from opposing ends of the interior surface, the two sidewalls of the attachment plate each including the other of either the guide slot or the protrusion, wherein the protrusions are configured to engage the guide slots so as to aligning the base plate and the attachment plate, wherein the first receiver is captured between the base plate and the attachment plate when the protrusions engage the guide slots.
A tube holder assembly, comprising:
- a rigid housing having a floor and an upstanding sidewall forming a cavity, the floor having a first receiver that at least partially bounds a first hollow portion;
- an attachment plate secured relative to the floor so that the first hollow portion is disposed between the floor and the attachment plate;
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- a first securing element projecting from the attachment plate and being movable between an advanced position wherein a portion of the first securing element projects into the first hollow portion of the first receiver and a retracted position wherein the first securing element is retracted back towards the attachment plate relative to when in the advanced position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.