Bag holder for blast freezing
AssigneeEntegris, Inc.
InventorNicholas Coscia
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Abstract
A bag holder for a blast freezing process includes a bag tray. The bag tray is genderless and can be combined with an identical bag tray to form the bag holder. The bag holder includes a basin, side walls, and an end wall. The first and second side walls each include a set of alternating extended and recessed sections and a channel extending through at least a portion of the set of alternating extended and recessed sections. The alternating extended and recessed sections are offset from one another such that where a set on one side wall has an extended section, the set on the other side wall has a recessed section and vice versa. Methods include forming these bag trays, and placing a bag in one bag tray, then joining another bag tray to form the holder around the bag.
Claims6
A bag holder for supporting a bioprocess bag during freezing, comprising:
- a bag tray including:
- a basin, surrounded in part by a first side wall, a second side wall, a back wall, and an end wall, the end wall including a recessed portion forming a neck;
- wherein the back wall includes a single back wall projection on a first side of a longitudinal axis of the bag tray and a single back wall recess on a second side of the longitudinal axis of the bag tray, wherein the second side of the longitudinal axis is opposite the first side of the longitudinal axis;
- wherein the first side wall includes a first set of alternating extended and recessed sections and a first channel extending through at least a portion of the first set of alternating extended and recessed sections;
- the second side wall includes a second set of alternating extended and recessed sections and a second channel extending through at least a portion of the second set of alternating extended and recessed portions;
- and
- the first set of alternating extended and recessed sections and the second set of alternating extended and recessed sections are offset from one another in the length direction of the first side wall and the second side wall such that where the first set of alternating extended and recessed sections has an extended section, the second set of alternating extended and recessed sections has a recessed section, and where the first set of alternating extended and recessed sections has a recessed section, the second set of alternating extended and recessed sections has an extended section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.