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US 5,635,137 AGranted
Reagent storage and reagent vessel
AssigneeKone Instruments Oy
InventorsHarald Manz, Juhani Makunen, Jari-Pekka Riekkinen
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AssigneeKone Instruments Oy
InventorsHarald Manz, Juhani Makunen, Jari-Pekka Riekkinen
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The invention relates to a frame for the storage of reagent vessels (4) and to a reagent vessel. The frame has a bottom part and a substantially circular rim, and the reagent vessels can be so stored in the frame that they extend to the rim (3) of the frame. The frame is provided with substantially radial partitions (6) for holding the vessels (4) in place. According to the invention, the partitions (6) are provided with auxiliary protrusions (10) placed so that the distance of the auxiliary protrusions from the rim (3) is substantially equal to the distance between two adjacent partitions (6) at the rim and that the distance between two auxiliary protrusions (10) on adjacent partitions (6) is shorter than the distance of the auxiliary protrusions (10) from the rim (3). The side walls of the reagent vessel (4) of the invention are provided with vertical recesses.
Wedge-shaped reagent vessel comprising a front wall and two side walls joined with the front wall and forming an acute angle with the front wall, a bottom of the vessel extending between the two side walls, each side wall being provided with a vertical recess placed at a distance from the front wall such that a circle fitted inside the bottom of the vessel is tangent with the recesses and the front wall, an interior of the vessel being formed by the front wall, the two side walls and the bottom of the vessel.
Wedge-shaped reagent vessel comprising a front wall, two side walls, a back wall and a bottom, the two side walls being joined with the front wall and forming an acute angle with the front wall, the bottom of the vessel extending between the two side walls, each side wall being provided with a vertical recess placed at a distance from the front wall such that a circle fitted inside the bottom of the vessel is tangent with the recesses and the front wall, the two side walls engaging the front wall and the back wall and tapering from the front wall to the back wall, a distance between ends of the back wall adjacent the side walls being a maximum width of the back wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.