Solvent tube management
AssigneeWaters Technologies Corporation
InventorsJames E. Usowicz, Stanislaw Koziol
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AssigneeWaters Technologies Corporation
InventorsJames E. Usowicz, Stanislaw Koziol
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A bottle cap includes a lower cap body that is threaded for attachment about an opening in a solvent bottle and an upper cap body attached to the lower cap body. A liner disposed inside the lower cap body includes at least one opening to pass a solvent tube while limiting evaporation of the solvent in the bottle. Features in the upper cap body permit identification flags to be attached. Each flag has an opening to pass a corresponding tube and includes one or more characters or symbols, color-coding and/or shape-coding to identify the corresponding solvent and/or a system inlet to which the tube is connected at its other end. The upper and lower cap bodies are independently rotatable about a cap axis and allow the bottle cap to be removed from or attached to the bottle without the need to remove any tubes passing through the bottle cap.
A bottle cap for identification of tubing coupled to a solvent container, comprising:
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