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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:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David J Lemieux, Middleton, MA (US);
William D Homberg, Oakland, CA (US);
Christopher Kelly, Larkspur, CA (US);
Kent G Moriarty, Pinole, CA (US);
Assignee:
Rainin Instrument Co., Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L / ; B65D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422100 ; 422104 ; 206499 ; 206503 ; 206506 ; 206507 ; 206563 ;
Abstract
A refill pack for storing and dispensing pipette tips into an empty tip rack. The refill rack comprises a hand-gripable carrier for an array of pipette tips releasably secured relative to the carrier such that after hand positioning the array of tips on the empty tip rack, the carrier may be released from the tips which are then free to be seated on a lower end of a pipette and removed from the tip rack.