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Reagent handling

  • US 4,764,342 A
  • Filed: 02/27/1985
  • Issued: 08/16/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Sealed reagent container formed of stretched oriented polymeric material comprising a body portion that has length and width dimensions each greater than its height dimension, said body portion having generally vertical sidewall portions extending between a top wall and a bottom wall, said sidewall portions being disposed in converging relation and joining at a nose portion and an end wall disposed at an end of said container opposite said nose portion, said end wall extending between said sidewall portions and said top and bottom walls, reagent material contained in said body portion, a port-defining neck portion formed in said top wall of said body portion and upstanding from the top wall of said body portion, said port-defining neck portion being asymmetrically located so that it is close to the endwall of said body portion remote from said nose portion, coupling structure on the bottom wall of said body portion positioned and arranged for interengagement with a transport mechanism so that a series of said reagent containers may be disposed on such a transport mechanism for movement past a reagent station where the reagent material is transferred from the reagent container to analysis cuvettes for mixing with sample material an analysis;

  • structure defining a through channel spaced from but adjacent to said port defining neck portion, said through-channel defining structure being open at it top and at its bottom and being sealed to and extending between the top and bottom walls of said body portion; and

    means for sealing said port.

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