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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1984
Keith Hellon, Libertyville, IL (US);
MacLean-Fogg Company, Mundelein, IL (US);
Abstract
A container for handling, transportation and storage of microscope slides includes a plurality of individual microscope slide-receiving compartments. Each compartment includes a plurality of rounded protuberances extending upwardly in each individual compartment for contacting a lower surface of the microscope slide to space the microscope slide upwardly from an inner surface of the compartments and a plurality of rounded protuberances extending downwardly from one or more cover members to restrain vertical slide movement while maintaining longitudinal and lateral spacing of the microscope slides. The container includes one or more plastic cover members having a generally planar surface overlying the plurality of microscope slides when the cover is in a closed position including a plurality of downwardly extending rounded protuberances within each of the slide-receiving compartments for vertical restraint of each microscope slide with minimum contact against the specimen-receiving face of each slide. The container covers are secured to the container by elongated, flexible hinge material to enable the cover member to be rotated or articulated from the closed position to an open, stackable position disposed adjacent an outer, lower surface of the container. Each cover member includes a plurality of alignment posts received within indentations within a ledge surface of partition walls forming the container compartments to maintain the cover members in a fixed position.