Device for removal of excess embedding medium
OwnerSteffen Kraus, Erwin Schneiderinventors
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Abstract
A device for removal of excess embedding media from the surface of an embedded sample, particularly for removing wax from the outside of a tissue cassette, comprising a rack (1) and a heatable plate (2) held at an incline by the rack (1), with grooves, flutes, recesses or the like serving as drainage channels (3) being configured in the surface of the plate (2) for receiving and discharging abraded and melted embedding medium and said channels flowing into a collection channel (4), characterized in that the drainage grooves (3) each open from a highest point down outwardly on either side into collection channels (4), which lead to a catch container (5).
Claims30
-29. (canceled)
A device for removal of excess embedding medium from the surface of an embedded sample, especially for removal of wax from the outside of a tissue cassette, said device comprising:
- a rack and a heatable plate, held by the rack with a slope, in which grooves, flutes, recesses or the like, serving as drainage chutes, are formed in the surface of the plate to receive and divert abraded and molten embedding medium, which discharge into one or more collecting chutes,
- wherein the drainage chutes discharge from the highest point in the collecting chutes, dropping off outward on both sides, which lead to a trapping vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.