Volumetric pipet

• US 8,124,027 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2009
• Issued: 02/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wai Yiu William Lau
• Original Assignee: Wai Yiu William Lau
• Inventors: Lau, Wai Yiu William
• Primary Examiner(s): Gordon, Brian R
• Application Number:
  US12/390,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20100196211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• Field of Search: 738/633.2, 738/64, 738/640.1, 422/501, 422/500, 422/547, 422/550, 422/920, 422/922
• US Class Current: 422/501
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/16 for liquid or semiliquid
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/22 for liquid or semiliquid
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 19/00 Calibrated capacity measures for fluids or fluent solid material, e.g. measuring cups

Abstract

The invention relates to a kind of volumetric pipet. It includes an outer casing. At the lower part of the outer casing, there is a fetching mouth which is detachably mounted to a liquid container. At the top of the outer casing, there is a detachably sealed top cover. Inside the outer casing, there is a hollow core with a top opening. There is an inlet mouth on the side wall of the core that corresponds to the fetching mouth. The internal wall of the outer casing can slide against the external wall of the core. The core'"'"'s rotating or sliding along its longitudinal orientation makes the fetching mouth and the inlet mouth correspond or stagger. This invention provides an easy-to-operate, precise rationing, quick and sanitary volumetric pipet.

Claims

1. A volumetric pipet, comprising:

an outer casing;

a liquid fetching mouth arranged at a lower part of the outer casing;

a liquid container detachably mounted to the liquid fetching mouth;

a top cover provided at the top of the outer casing, which is detachably sealed to the outer casing;

a hollow core with a top opening arranged inside the outer casing; and

an inlet mouth on the side wall of the core;

wherein an internal wall surface of the outer casing is slip fitted with an external wall surface of the core, and the core is rotatable or slidable along its longitudinal orientation relative to the outer casing to make the liquid fetching mouth being aligned or staggered with the inlet mouth.

2. The volumetric pipet according to claim 1, wherein the top cover is coupled with the top of the outer casing with threads;

a rotating mechanism is provided between the top cover and the core, wherein rotation of the top cover drives the core to rotate through the rotating mechanism; and

a convoluting mechanism is provided between the core and the outer casing, through which the rotated core can return to its original position.

3. The volumetric pipet according to claim 2, wherein the rotating mechanism includes a step located on the top of the core and a block located on the bottom of the top cover that corresponds to the step, wherein the block props up a side of the step to drive the core to rotate when the top cover is rotated.

4. The volumetric pipet according to claim 3, wherein the convoluting mechanism includes a convolver located on the bottom of the core, one end of the convolver being fixed on the outer casing, and the other end being fixed on the core.

5. The volumetric pipet according to claim 4, wherein corresponding steps are provided in the middle of the external wall surface of the core and in the middle of the internal wall surface of the outer casing respectively;

and a positioner is arranged between the core and the internal wall surface of the outer casing, the positioner includes a heave located on the step of the external wall surface of the core and a block corresponding to the heave located on the step of the internal wall surface of the outer casing;

wherein the liquid fetching mouth is completely aligned and communicated with the inlet mouth while the core rotates to cause the block on the internal wall surface of the outer casing propping up to a side of the heave.

6. The volumetric pipet according to claim 5, wherein an angle formed by staggering rotation of the inlet mouth and the liquid fetching mouth is the same as an angle formed by the rotation of the heave on the external wall surface of the core and the block on the step in the middle of the outer casing when the top cover is unscrewed on the outer casing;

the top cover at the center of its bottom has a volumetric tube, a bottom of which forms a bevel, wherein the bevel of the volumetric tube is aligned with a corresponding bevel formed on the wall of a lower part of the core when the liquid fetching mouth is completely aligned and communicated with the inlet mouth; and

length of the thread on the top cover is configured that while the top cover is tightened up to the outer casing, the heave in the middle of the external wall surface of the core and the block on the step in the middle of the outer casing props up each other, and the inlet mouth and the liquid fetching mouth are completely aligned and communicated.

7. The volumetric pipet according to claim 6, wherein an external wall surface of the volumetric tube is slip fitted with the internal wall surface of the core;

a highest point of the bevel of the volumetric tube corresponds to the block on the bottom of the top cover; and

the wall of the core and the volumetric tube enclose a rationing cavum which inclines toward an upper edge of the inlet mouth.

8. The volumetric pipet according to claim 7, wherein the liquid fetching mouth inclines upwardly, and an angle α

between a central axes of the liquid fetching mouth and a central axes of the core is no greater than an angle β

between the bevel at the bottom of the volumetric tube, the bevel at the wall at the lower part of the core and the central axes of the core.

9. The volumetric pipet according to claim 1, further comprising a bottom cover detachably fixed on a lower end of the outer casing, and an elastic component which can be stretched and compressed vertically along the outer casing is provided between the bottom cover and the bottom of the core, wherein the liquid fetching mouth on the outer casing is aligned and communicated with the inlet mouth on the core when the elastic component is compressed, and the liquid fetching mouth on the outer casing is staggered with the inlet mouth on the core due to upward movement of the core when the elastic component is stretched;

and the outer casing has a limitator to prevent the core from disengaging the top of the outer casing.

10. The volumetric pipet according to claim 9, wherein the top cover is coupled with the top of the outer casing with thread;

the lower end of the outer casing is coupled with the bottom cover with thread;

corresponding steps are provided respectively on the internal wall surface at the middle of the outer casing and on the external wall surface of the core above the inlet mouth, and the limitator is the step located on the internal wall surface at the middle of the outer casing, wherein the core is limited when it moves upwardly to the step on the external wall surface of the core propping up the step on the outer casing.

11. The volumetric pipet according to claim 10, wherein the elastic component has a Ω

-shaped longitudinal section, with its top propping up the bottom of the core and its bottom being fixed on the top of the bottom cover.

12. The volumetric pipet according to claim 11, wherein the top cover at the center of its bottom has a volumetric tube, and an external wall surface of the volumetric tube is slip fitted with the internal wall surface of the core;

the volumetric tube at its bottom forms a bevel, wherein the bevel of the volumetric tube is aligned with a corresponding bevel formed on the wall of a lower part of the core when the liquid fetching mouth is completely aligned and communicated with the inlet mouth; and

the wall of the core and the volumetric tube enclose a rationing cavum which inclines toward an upper edge of the inlet mouth.

13. The volumetric pipet according to claim 12, wherein the liquid fetching mouth inclines upwardly, and an angle α

between a central axes of the liquid fetching mouth and a central axes of the core is no greater than an angle β

between the bevel at the bottom of the volumetric tube, the bevel at the wall at the lower part of the core and the central axes of the core.