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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1992
Werner Lurz, Kaltenkirchen, DE;
Eppendorf-Netheler-Hinz GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
An evacuating apparatus for applying suction to the underside of a microtitration diaphragm plate including a plurality of diaphragm receptacles each having an open top and a diaphragm bottom, the evacuating apparatus including a housing defining an evacuation chamber having an aperture provided in a top wall of said chamber and having associated therewith peripheral gasket means for supporting a rim of said microtitration diaphragm plate, and further comprising a carrier including support means for supporting a microtitration recipient plate including a plurality of closed bottom receptacles each having an open top and a closed bottom, said carrier being adapted to be displaced between an access position wherein said recipient plate may be positioned onto or removed from said support means, and a loading position wherein said recipient plate is disposed within said chamber below said diaphragm plate so that said diaphragm receptacles of said diaphragm plate vertically register with said closed bottom receptacles of said recipient plate, said carrier having a face plate which sealingly engages a peripheral edge of an access opening of said chamber when said carrier is in its loading position.