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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1985
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
F Robert Drury, Lexington, MA (US);
Marshall D Graham, Framingham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Coulter Electronics, Inc., Hialeah, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05C / ; B05C / ; B05C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
118120 ; 118100 ; 118108 ; 118207 ; 118413 ; 118500 ; 1510 / ;
Abstract
A portable, manually operable device for preparing a monolayer film of a biological fluid sample or the like on a slide for microscopic examination. Said device includes a base for retaining the slide thereon and a spreader manually movable linearly relative to the base and slide in a pass which spreads a sample of the fluid on the slide into such a monolayer. Preferably, the spreader is constructed to be disposable.