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US 7,410,055 B2Granted
Transport container for slides for immunological labeling for thin tissue sections
AssigneeLeica Mikrosysteme GmbH
InventorHeinz Plank
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Abstract
A transport container (40) for slides (4) for immunological labeling of thin tissue sections (2a) is disclosed. The transport container (40) is embodied in the form of a trough which comprises a peripheral delimiting wall (49) that is closed off by a base (50). There is embodied in the interior of the trough on the delimiting wall (49) at least one peripheral step (57) on which the slide rests and is spaced away from the base (50) of the transport container (40).
Claims9
A transport container for slides for immunological labeling of thin tissue sections comprising:
- a left and a right sidewall, a backwall and a frontwall joined together to form a peripheral delimiting wall having interior and exterior sides, a base attached to the peripheral delimiting wall closing off the transport container, at least one peripheral step formed in the interior side of the peripheral delimiting wall, and wherein said base comprises first and second elevations and a planar flattened area located at the same level as the slide for providing additional support to said slide, said first and second elevations being cup-shaped with a depression closed off by said planar flattened area, said depression of said first elevation having a cross-section in the form of a circle, and the depression of the second elevation having a cross-section in the form of a rectangle with rounded edges.
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