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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2018
Qiagen Healthcare Biotechnologies Systems Gmbh, Hilden, DE;
Kathryn Louise Lamerton, South Wales, GB;
Michael John Smith, South Wales, GB;
Phillip Evans, South Wales, GB;
Kristina Swann, South Wales, GB;
QIAGEN HEALTHCARE BIOTECHNOLOGIES SYSTEMS GmbH, Hilden, DE;
Abstract
Disclosed is a lidded magazine () for holding plural generally flat sample collection cards () in spaced parallel relation, the magazine is open at its top and includes upstanding opposed side walls (), each wall () further including plural opposed pairs of inwardly extending wall ribs () spaced along each wall () to provide therebetween card accepting slots, a first slot dimension (W) being defined by the spacing between an interior face () of each wall, the magazine being characterised in that the walls () at the top () of each slot () are tapered outwardly such that the first dimension (W) is greatest at the top of the slot ().