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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward Francis Farina, Oxford, PA (US);
Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr., Bear, DE (US);
Assignee:
Dade Behring Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 ;
Abstract
An aliquot vessel array having notched side flanges and rails of a next adjacent so that a plurality of arrays may be attached one atop another in a secure stack. Stacked aliquot vessel arrays may be simultaneously loaded into a storage unit on an automatic analyzer and automatically dispensed into a sampling track as required. The aliquot vessel array has certain handling features to ensure safe and reliable movement between the storage unit and sampling tracks.