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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:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Holger Link, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
Eppendorf-Netheler-Hinz GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47F / ; B01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
211 8513 ; 206504 ; 422100 ; 211 601 ; 211194 ;
Abstract
A magazine for pipette tip-shaped articles including a plurality of plates for holding the pipette tip-shaped articles and each having a plurality of bores for receiving the pipette tip-shaped articles in their entirety, a plurality of racks stacked over one another and adapted to each receive at least one holding plate, and complementary locking elements provided on the adjacent racks, respectively, and engageable with each other to form the at least one of a form-locking connection and a force-locking connection upon insertion of a holding plate in one of the adjacent racks and disengageable from each other upon removal of the holding plate.