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US 4,051,752 AGranted
Process for gel cutting
AssigneeBioware, Inc.
InventorLeo P. Cawley
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Abstract
A process and a gel cutting device constructed and adapted to remove gel like material from a surface, the device having a hollow body with fluid communication therethrough, a pickup conduit attached to the inlet of the body, a cutter on the inlet end of the pickup conduit. The outlet of the body is connectable to a vacuum source. In operation the process and the gel cutter have the cutter of the pickup conduit passed into gel material, cutting same and passing the removed material through the pickup conduit into the hollow body.
Claims6
A process for cutting gel comprising:
- a. placing a gel on a surface;
- b. situating a flattened end of a gel cutting apparatus on said surface coated with said gel, said gel cutting apparatus including a hollow substantially cylindrical body having an inlet and an outlet to provide fluid communication therethrough, a cutter portion attached to said inlet, a vacuum pressure source connected to said outlet, said cutter portion including a structure defining an essentially elongated conduit having said flattened end;
- c. moving said flattened end over said surface coated with said gel and thereby channeling a groove in said gel;
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- d. removing said gel through said cutter portion by said vacuum pressure simultaneous to said moving step (c).
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