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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2005
Applicant:
David Miller, Concord, CA (US);
Inventor:
David Miller, Concord, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C 1/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A test tube pick system for picking and placing test tubes in a rack that includes a hand-held pick unit that communicates with a host device that assists in instructing the picking and placement of test tubes, the hand-held pick unit having a housing with a hand grip portion, a control portion with an actuator control and a display for displaying alphanumeric characters for pick and placement locations, a pick portion having four extending fingers with bent ends forming four parallel spaced end prongs, and an actuator mechanism that displaces and spreads at least two of the four end prongs when the actuator control is activated by a user.