Sample-supply device for automatic analysis apparatus

• US 3,134,263 A
• Filed: 10/20/1961
• Issued: 05/26/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: De Jong Eduard B M
• Original Assignee: De Jong Eduard B M
• Inventors: DE JONG EDUARD B M
• Application Number:
  US04/146,551
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• US Class Current: 73/864.25
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 1/704 using marked regions or existing inhomogeneities within the fluid stream, e.g. statistically occurring variations in a fluid parameter G01F1/76, G01F25/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/08 using a stream of discrete samples flowing along a tube system, e.g. flow injection analysis

Claims

1. LIQUID-SAMPLE SUPPLY APPARATUS, COMPRISING A CARRIER FOR A SERIES OF LIQUID-SAMPLE CONTAINERS, RECEPTACLE MEANS MOUNTED LATERALLY OF SAID CARRIER FOR PROVIDING A WASH LIQUID FOR THE LIQUID-SAMPLES, A TAKE-OFF DEVICE MOVABLE INTO AND OUT OF SAID CONTAINERS AND SAID RECEPTACLE MEANS, RESPECTIVELY, FOR WITHDRAWING THE LIQUID SAMPLES FROM SAID CONTAINERS AND THE WASH LIQUID FROM SAID RECEPTACLE MEANS, MEANS TO INTERMITTENTLY MOVE SAID TAKE-OFF DEVICE AND SAID CARRIER RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER TO POSITION SUCCESSIVE SAMPLES AT SAID TAKE-OFF DEVICE, AND MEANS AUTOMATICALLY OPERABLE IN RELATION TO SAID INTERMITTENT MOVEMENT FOR MOVING SAID TAKE-OFF DEVICE INTO AND OUT OF SAID CONTAINERS AND RECEPTACLE MEANS, RESPECTIVELY.