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Fluid sample collecting and analyzing apparatus

  • US 20090143699A1
  • Filed: 11/29/2007
  • Published: 06/04/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A collecting and testing apparatus, for detecting and analyte in a fluid sample, which:

  • comprises;

    a plunger including a push rod, a piston attached to one extremity of said rod, said piston having a distal face, and a spongy swab axially mounted on said distal face;

    a tubular body open at a first end, closed at an opposite second end, and being dimensioned to be intimately engaged by said piston;

    said body having at least one exit port proximate said second end; and

    a trippable barrier positioned to stop said piston distally from said second end; and

    wherein said swab is dimensioned to be partially squeezed between said distal face and said second end when said distal face reaches a stopping location determined by said barrier.

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