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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2011
Mitchell Friedman, Randallstown, MD (US);
Mitchell Friedman, Randallstown, MD (US);
Other;
Abstract
Disclosed is a linear shaker apparatus capable of effectively mixing a wide variety of large volume liquid samples that provides a near linear mixing motion so as to allow for the easy break up of solids suspended in the fluid sample. The longer shaking distances and slower operating speeds employed by the linear shaker described herein, which resembles the motion a scientist or lab technician might employ when shaking such a vial by hand, does not lend itself to the electromagnetic technique employed in various prior art shakers. The linear shaker described herein employs an electric motor and linkage that allows varying the speed and stroke of the mixing operation to accommodate different laboratory protocols.