Cell collector

• US 3,224,434 A
• Filed: 11/06/1962
• Issued: 12/21/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Norman Molomut, Paul Scheman
• Original Assignee: Norman Molomut, Paul Scheman
• Inventors: NORMAN MOLOMUT, Scheman, Paul
• Application Number:
  US04/235,693
• Time in Patent Office: 1,141 Days
• US Class Current: 600/562
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/02 Instruments for taking cell samples or for biopsy A61B10/0038 and A61B10/0045 take precedence; needle locating or guiding means A61B17/3403; samplers for enzymology or microbiology C12M1/26; sampling or preparing biological specimens G01N33/48

Claims

1. A CLINICAL CELL COLLECTOR, COMPRISING A NOZZLE HAVING A NOSE PORTION AND A REAR PORTION, SAID NOSE PORTION AND SAID REAR PORTION BEING DETACHABLY CONNECTIBLE TO EACH OTHER, A LONGITUDINAL PASSAGEWAY IN SAID NOSE PORTION AND A LONGITUDINAL PASSAGEWAY IN SAID REAR PORTION, SAID PASSAGEWAYS PROVIDING A THROUGH PASSAGEWAY WHEN THE TWO PORTIONS ARE CONNECTED, THE PASSAGEWAY AT THE END OF THE NOSE PORTION ADJACENT THE REAR PORTION BEING ENLARGED TO FORM AN ANNULAR CHAMBER, AND A CELL-COLLECTING FILTER SEATED IN SAID CHAMBER SO AS TO BE ATHWART THE LONGITUDINAL PASSAGEWAY, WHEREBY WHEN SUCTION IS APPLIED TO THE FAR END OF THE REAR PORTION THE FILTER WILL BE IN THE PATH OF CELLS THAT ARE ASPIRATED BY THE NOSE PORTION, THE END OF THE NOSE PORTION REMOTE FROM THE REAR PORTION BEING ROUGHENED SO AS TO SERVE AS A SCRAPER OF CELLS.