US 2014/0271407 A1 · TISSUE CASSETTE WITH BIASING ELEMENT

Abstract

An apparatus for holding a tissue sample including a retaining member having a first tissue engaging surface and at least one biasing element, the first tissue engaging surface being moveably attached to the retaining member by said biasing element; and a base having a second tissue engaging surface and configured to engage the retaining member to form an interior area with the first and second tissue engaging surfaces facing each other, wherein the at least one biasing element urges the first tissue engaging surface toward the second tissue engaging surface to retain the tissue sample therebetween in the interior area.

Claims39

Dependent claims

An apparatus for holding a tissue sample comprising,

a retaining member having a first tissue engaging surface and at least one biasing element, the first tissue engaging surface being moveably attached to the retaining member by said biasing element;
and
a base comprising a second tissue engaging surface and configured to engage the retaining member to form an interior area with the first and second tissue engaging surfaces facing each other,
wherein the at least one biasing element urges the first tissue engaging surface toward the second tissue engaging surface to retain the tissue sample therebetween in the interior area.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/204,375Filed 11 Mar 2014

Priority

15 Mar 2013

Published

18 Sep 2014

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G01N 1/31
Staining; Impregnating ; Fixation; Dehydration; Multistep processes for preparing samples of tissue, cell or nucleic acid material and the like…:…
B01L 3/508
Containers for the purpose of retaining a material to be analysed, e.g. test tubes: rigid containers without fluid transport within
B01L 3/5457
For laboratory containers: for container closures
G01N 1/36
Preparing specimens for investigation including physical details of chemical methods covered elsewhere, e.g. G01N33/50, C12Q: embedding or…

Tissue cassette with biasing element

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Tissue cassette with biasing element

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Abstract

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