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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1999
Charles Amick Buckner, III, Durham, NC (US);
Glaxo Wellcome Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for uniformly heating and cooling deep well pharmaceutical microplates when used in fluid connection with a heater/cooler water pump. The apparatus comprises a housing having a divider plate extending transversely through the medial portion of the housing and that defines a matrix of apertures therethrough. A plurality of vertically extending tubes are mounted within a corresponding plurality of the matrix of apertures with the lower end of each tube mounted in a corresponding aperture and the top end extending upwardly from the divider plate and through the open top of the housing. A fluid inlet into the upper chamber of the housing defined by the divider plate, and fluid outlet from the lower chamber of the housing defined by the divider plate is provided in the housing along with a support surface around at least a portion of the perimeter of the upper chamber to support a deep well pharmaceutical microplate in upright position thereon with the plurality of tubes being nestingly received within the interstices defined between the deep wells of the microplate and extending parallel and substantially along the entire length of the deep wells.