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US 2002/0162843 A1Published application
Multiple-compartment biological specimen cassette
OwnerKenneth A. Alleyinventor
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Abstract
A multi-compartment biological specimen cassette. The perforations in one compartment of the cassette may have a different size and/or shape than the perforations in the other compartment or compartments.
Claims12
An apparatus for holding a biological specimen, the apparatus comprising:
- a base having a perforated bottom member and a plurality of endwalls depending upward from the bottom member, said upward depending endwalls being joined to define a lower well, the base having a lower compartment wall depending upwards from the bottom member at a predetermined position to divide said lower well into at least two lower sections;
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- a cover that is movably attached to said base, said cover having a perforated top member and a plurality of endwalls depending downward from the top member, said downward depending endwalls being joined to define an upper well, the cover having an upper compartment wall depending downward from the top member, the position of the upper compartment wall being a mirror image of said lower compartment wall to divide said upper well into at least two upper sections corresponding to said two lower sections so that when the cover closes over the base one of said two lower sections and its corresponding one of said two upper sections form a primary compartment and the other of said two lower sections and its corresponding other of said two upper sections form a secondary compartment.
A unitary two-compartment tissue cassette, the cassette comprising:
- an open-topped perforated bottom member having lower endwalls and a lower compartment wall for defining two lower sections, each lower section adapted to receive a tissue sample;
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- a perforated cover member having upper endwalls and an upper compartment wall for defining two upper sections substantially identical in shape and position to their respective lower sections, the cover member adapted to cover the bottom member such that the first lower section and the first upper section form a primary compartment for securing a first tissue sample and contemporaneously the second lower section and the second upper section form a secondary compartment for securing a second tissue sample
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.