Lid type vessel
AssigneeEppendorf AG
InventorJürgen Löhn
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Abstract
A lid type vessel of an elastic plastic material for laboratory use, specifically in the PCR procedure, comprising a tubular vessel which has a vessel bottom at one end and a vessel opening at the other end, a lid which has a lid bottom and has at least one hollow cylinder on one side of the lid bottom, which is adapted to be inserted into a sealing seat at the vessel inner wall through the vessel opening, and/or which is adapted to be placed onto the end of the vessel having the vessel opening and in a sealing seat on the vessel outer wall in the area of the axial portion, and at least one axial portion of the hollow cylinder or vessel in the area of the sealing seat by means of which the hollow cylinder or vessel is alternately subdivided into harder and softer segments in a circumferential direction.
Claims16
A lid type vessel of an elastic material for laboratory use, comprising:
- a tubular vessel having a bottom at one end thereof, an opening at another, opposite end thereof, and inner and outer walls;
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- a lid having a bottom and at least one hollow cylinder provided on one side of the lid bottom and including means for sealingly engaging one of the inner wall of the tubular vessel and the outer wall of the tubular vessel upon one of, respectively, being inserted through the vessel opening and being placed onto the another end of the tubular vessel,
- wherein one of the hollow cylinder and the vessel has at least one axial portion provided in area of a sealing engagement of the hollow cylinder with the one of the inner wall of the tubular vessel and the outer wall of the tubular vessel and formed of alternating, in a circumferential direction, harder segments and softer segments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.