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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. 13, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Horst Ruther, Hart/Graz, AT;
Assignee:
AVL Medical Instruments AG, Schaffhausen, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B67C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
141330 ; 141-1 ; 141 97 ; 422102 ; 222 87 ; 225 93 ; 225103 ;
Abstract
For the purpose of automatically drawing a liquid from a sealed glass ampoule the latter is held in a support in upright position with the ampoule bottom facing upwards, and the bottom is destroyed mechanically by inserting a withdrawing element. The liquid content of the ampoule is then sucked from a splinter-free zone of the glass ampoule.