Lateral flow test apparatus
AssigneeOwen Mumford Limited
InventorMatthew David Farmer
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Abstract
A lateral flow test apparatus comprising a housing and a test strip located within the housing. The apparatus further comprises a capillary tube having first and second ends, the first end configured to receive a fluid sample to be tested, and the second opposed end, the housing and the test strip defining an air gap between said second end and a fluid sample receiving region of said test strip, and a user actuable mechanism configured to move said receiving region across said air gap and into contact with said second end, whereby, in use, a sample fluid within said capillary tube is drawn from the capillary tube into said receiving region.
Claims10
A lateral flow test apparatus comprising a housing and an elongated test strip located within the housing, the apparatus further comprising:
- a capillary tube having first and second ends, the first end configured to receive a fluid sample to be tested, the second opposed end, the housing, and the test strip defining an air gap between said second end and the fluid sample receiving region of said test strip, and the second opposed end being configured to be located adjacent to a fluid sample receiving region of said test strip;
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- a user actuatable mechanism comprising a button configured to move said receiving region across said air gap and into contact with said second end, whereby, in use, a sample fluid within said capillary tube is drawn from the capillary tube into said receiving region,
- wherein the user actuatable mechanism is configured to be adjacent to the elongated test strip,
- wherein the elongated test strip comprises a long axis,
- wherein the user actuatable mechanism moves said receiving region in a perpendicular direction relative to the long axis toward the second end of the capillary tube, and
- wherein the button comprises a first barb and a second barb and wherein, prior to depression of the button, the first barb is configured to engage with the housing in a first snap-fit configuration and wherein, upon depression of the button by a user, the second barb is configured to engage with the housing in a second snap-fit configuration.
A lateral flow test apparatus comprising a housing configured to receive an elongated test strip, the apparatus further comprising:
- a capillary tube having first and second ends, the first end configured to receive a fluid sample to be tested, the second opposed end, the housing, and the test strip, when installed, defining an air gap between said second end and a fluid sample receiving region of said test strip, and the second opposed end being configured to be located adjacent to a fluid sample receiving region of said test strip;
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- a user actuatable mechanism comprising a button configured to move said receiving region across said air gap and into contact with said second end, whereby, in use, a sample fluid within said capillary tube is drawn from the capillary tube into said receiving region,
- wherein the user actuatable mechanism is configured to be adjacent to the elongated test strip,
- wherein the elongated test strip comprises a long axis,
- wherein the user actuatable mechanism moves said receiving region in a perpendicular direction relative to the long axis toward the second end of the capillary tube, and
- wherein the button comprises a first barb and a second barb and wherein, prior to depression of the button, the first barb is configured to engage with the housing in a first snap-fit configuration and wherein, upon depression of said button by a user, the second barb is configured to engage with the housing in a second snap-fit configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.