Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Gary F Hershner

Dwight Livingston

Ammon David Lentz

Elisabeth Lily Sooklal

Joseph Kelleher

Sharon Virginia LaMont Leitch

Daniel Justin Lohan

Michael A Brasch

Timothy M Wiles

Brent Ronald Pohl

Charles C Yu

Patrick Shawn Beaty

Ming-hsiung Yeh

Mei Yang-Woytowitz

Ben Turng

Liping Feng

Eric Ursprung

Xiaofei Chang

Patrick R Murray

Kevin Bailey

Gerard Lotz

Ming-Hsiung Yeh

A pierceable cap may be used for containing sample specimens. The pierceable cap may prevent escape of sample specimens before transfer with a transfer device. The pierceable cap may fit over a vessel. An access port in the shell of the pierceable cap may allow passage of a transfer device through the pierceable cap. The shell receives a septum that has four half dome indentations, each indentation defining a quadrant of the septum interior. The indentations are separated by the septum floor which extends along respective first and second diameters of the septum and intersect at approximately ninety degrees. The half dome indentations guide a transfer device to the partially slitted portion of the septum floor.

Reclosing septum cap for medical sample transport and processing

An apparatus and associated methods of use for a controlled combination of reagents is disclosed. The apparatus includes a vessel, a vessel insert, and a cap element. The vesselhas a body portionfor receiving a biological sample. The vessel insertreceives at least one reagent therein. Preferably, the vessel insertis received in a portionof the vessel. The cap elementis attached to the vesselto secure the vessel insertin the vessel. During use, the vessel insertis adapted to release its contents when the biological sample is introduced into the body portionof the vesselupon application of an intermixing force to the vessel insert. A variety of intermixing forces may be applied, depending upon the embodiment of the present invention and its associated methods of use.

Blood culture bottles with mechanisms for controlled release of substances into culture media

Combined cap and septum assembly for a vessel

Septum for a vessel

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Red Lion, PA, United States of America

Gary F Hershner