Method of eluting reagent from reagent strips for chemical analyses and reagent strip therefor
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1. A method of reagent elution from a reagent strip having an elongated handle and a dry, absorbent carrier impregnated with a reagent on one end of the handle, the method comprising:
- providing a thin mesh stuck onto the handle at opposite sides of the absorbent carrier, substantially covering the absorbent carrier, and pressing the absorbent carrier toward the handle and another mesh between the handle and the absorbent carrier for improving the quantitative elution and the rate of elution of the reagent into a liquid when the absorbent carrier is immersed therein; and
immersing the absorbent carrier in the liquid for the elution.
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The present invention provides a method of improving reagent elution from a reagent strip comprising a handle on one end which is affixed an absorbent carrier impregnated with a reagent. The absorbent carrier is pressed against the handle by a thin mesh which is stuck or sealed on to the handle on opposite sides of the carrier.
Another mesh is between the carrier and the handle. When the carrier is immersed in a liquid, the meshes improve the elution of the reagent into the liquid.
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1. A method of reagent elution from a reagent strip having an elongated handle and a dry, absorbent carrier impregnated with a reagent on one end of the handle, the method comprising:
- providing a thin mesh stuck onto the handle at opposite sides of the absorbent carrier, substantially covering the absorbent carrier, and pressing the absorbent carrier toward the handle and another mesh between the handle and the absorbent carrier for improving the quantitative elution and the rate of elution of the reagent into a liquid when the absorbent carrier is immersed therein; and
immersing the absorbent carrier in the liquid for the elution. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
- providing a thin mesh stuck onto the handle at opposite sides of the absorbent carrier, substantially covering the absorbent carrier, and pressing the absorbent carrier toward the handle and another mesh between the handle and the absorbent carrier for improving the quantitative elution and the rate of elution of the reagent into a liquid when the absorbent carrier is immersed therein; and
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14. In a reagent strip having an elongated handle and a dry, absorbent carrier impregnated with a reagent on one end of the handle, the improvement comprising:
means comprising a thin mesh stuck onto the handle at opposite sides of the absorbent carrier, substantially covering the absorbent carrier, and pressing the absorbent carrier toward the handle; and
means comprising another mesh between the handle and the absorbent carrier for improving the quantitative elution and the rate of the elution into the liquid when the absorbent carrier is immersed therein.
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