Sample-supply cups for analysis apparatus

• US 3,190,731 A
• Filed: 03/08/1961
• Issued: 06/22/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edwin C. Weiskopf
• Original Assignee: Edwin C. Weiskopf
• Inventors: Weiskopf, Edwin C.
• Application Number:
  US04/094,286
• Time in Patent Office: 1,567 Days
• US Class Current: 422/557
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/508 rigid containers not provided for above
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/4905 Determining clotting time of blood by chemical methods G01N33/86, C12Q1/56

Claims

1. A SMALL CUP-LIKE RECEPTACLE FOR A SAMPLE LIQUID FOR USE IN CONNECTIN WITH AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SAID RECEPTACLE BEING ADAPTED TO BE MOUNTED IN AN OPENING OF A HORIZONTAL SUPPORT, SAID RECEPTACLE HAVING A SMALL VOLUMETRIC CAPACITY OF THE ORDER OF A FRACTION OF A CUBIC INCH AND BEING OF GREATER DEPTH THAN WIDTH AND HAVING A DOWNWARDLY TAPERING INNER WALL PART FORMING THE INNER BOTTOM PORTION OF THE RECEPTACLE, THE APEX OF SAID TAPERING INNER WALL PART BEING TRUNCATED BY A FLAT SURFACE, SO AS TO FACILITATE THE ASPIRATION OF A MAXIMUM QUANTITY OF THE LIQUID SAMPLE FROM THE RECEPTACLE THROUGH A TUBE INSERTED IN THE CUP AND POSITIONED WITH ITS INLET END CLOSE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE CUP, AND AN INTEGRAL HORIZONTAL EXTERNAL PART PROJECTING LATERALLY FROM THE SIDE OF THE CUP AND POSITIONED NEAR THE TOP THEREOF SO THAT SAID PART IS ADAPTED TO BE POSITIONED OVER THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID HORIZONTAL SUPPORT WHEN THE CUP IS MOUNTED THEREON, SAID PART ALSO EX-