US3882619A - Sample tube device - Google Patents

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US3882619A
US3882619A US481264A US48126474A US3882619A US 3882619 A US3882619 A US 3882619A US 481264 A US481264 A US 481264A US 48126474 A US48126474 A US 48126474A US 3882619 A US3882619 A US 3882619A
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Pierre Durand
Gerard Lartigue
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Priority to GB2838172A priority patent/GB1401668A/en
Priority to DE19722230599 priority patent/DE2230599B2/de
Priority to DE19722265204 priority patent/DE2265204A1/de
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/02—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the selection of materials, e.g. to avoid wear during transport through the machine
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01L—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE
    • B01L3/00—Containers or dishes for laboratory use, e.g. laboratory glassware; Droppers
    • B01L3/54—Labware with identification means
    • B01L3/545—Labware with identification means for laboratory containers
    • B01L3/5453—Labware with identification means for laboratory containers for test tubes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01L—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE
    • B01L9/00—Supporting devices; Holding devices
    • B01L9/06—Test-tube stands; Test-tube holders
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/08—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
    • G09F3/16—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by clamps

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  • ABSTRACT The invention relates to a sample tube device for use in chemical and/or biochemical and/or serohematological analyses.
  • An object of the invention is to provide a tube device which satisfies the various above-mentioned requirements in a simple manner.
  • a sample tube device for use in chemical or biochemical analysis, more particularly the analysis of blood, comprising a receptacle to which is connected a panel or the like capable of receiving an information support such as an information carrying card means which is punched and/or marked and/or comprises magnetic means.
  • the panel is provided with members for positioning the card relative to the panel and also with detachable means for fixing the card positively to the panel.
  • the said fixing means is a clip device comprising flexible lugs.
  • the lugs after passing through openings in the card means are capable of clipping on to the longitudinal edges of the panel, thereby holding the card means to the panel.
  • the clip device advantageously comprises means for positively securing a conventional test-tube to the device while at the same time assuring that the card means are removably fixed to the panel.
  • the information carrying card means is such that it contains cut-outs enabling it to be positioned relative to the panel members and comprises a plurality of stubs so as to provide means for transcribing general information on the card means relating to the analysis.
  • FIG. 1 is an elevation of a device embodying the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional view along a line 2-2 of FIG.
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional view on a line 3--3 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional views along line 4-4 of FIGv 2 also illustrating an information supporting card and the means for fixing it to the tube device;
  • FIG. 5 shows part of the device embodying the invention as seen in the direction of an arrow F in FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 6 is a section along a line 66 in FIG. 5;
  • FIGv 7 is a plan view of a clip forming part of a device embodying the invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a view in elevation of the clip
  • FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic perspective view of the clip
  • FIG. 10 illustrates an information support suitable for use on a device embodying the invention.
  • FIG. 11 is a diagrammatic perspective view of a device embodying the invention.
  • a tube device 200 comprises a tubular body 201 forming a cavity or receptacle 202 with a hemispherical bottom 203.
  • the cavity 202 can receive the sample per se.
  • a test tube can be received in cavity 202 which contains the sample to be analyzed.
  • two bores 205, 206 (FIG. 3) extend substantially more than halfway up the tube device from the base 204 of the device.
  • the bores 205, 206 are on opposite sides of a shorter, blind bore 207 leading to the underside 204 of the device.
  • the bores are intended to hold the tube device vertical by cooperating with appropriate means, for example, pins on a belt conveyor or the like which forms a part of an automatic analysis machine, the lastmentioned machine being adapted to chemically and- /or biochemically and/or sero-hematologically analyze a plurality of liquid samples.
  • the body 201 of the tube device has on its side 210, perpendicular to the base 204, a panel 211 which extends over substantially the entire depth of the device and which contains parallel grooves 212 having rectangular cross-sections and defined by plane orthogonal faces 213 to 215.
  • the longitudinal edges 223, 224 of the upper portion of the panel 211 have wedge-shaped cross-sections defined by flat surfaces 225, 226 and 227, 228 respectively (FIG. 4).
  • the panel 211 is provided, near its top and bottom respectively, with members for positioning an information support such as a card which is punched and/or marked and/or comprises magnetic means or generally contains information thereon.
  • an information support positioning member on the lower portion of the device 200, which is comprised of a lug 216 having a rectangular configuration defined by surfaces 217 to 220. A portion of it projects from the plane of the face 210 in order to accommodate an information supporting card 230 (FIG. 10).
  • a cylindrically shaped stud 221 is provided in the center of the longitudinal plane of symmetry 222 of the device.
  • Clip means advantageously, a clip 231 (FIGS. 4 and 7 to 9), is provided in accordance with the invention to detachably secure the card 230 to the tube device 200.
  • the body 232 of clip 231 includes a small flat plate containing a circular opening 233, the diameter of which conforms to that of the stud 221. Projecting from the longitudinal edges of the body 232 are flexible lugs 235, 236 and 237, 238.
  • the lugs are so-shaped as to conform to the configuration of the edges 223 and 224 of the panel 211 of the tube device 200 and are formed from any resiliently flexible material, eg spring steel, plastic material and the like.
  • the clip 231 is provided in accordance with the invention with means for positively fixing the tube T to the device 200, since any test tubes in a single series may exhibit slight dimensional differences.
  • the said fixing means advantageously comprise two tongues 240 and 241 extending parallel to the plane of the body 232 from the ends of the upper lugs 235 and 236 which fix the clip on to the tube device 200.
  • the tongues 240 and 241 bear on the tube T urging it to the interior of the receptacle 202 as illustrated in FIG. 7 and thereby retaining the tube T securely in place.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates an example of an information support 230 or data carrier of the punch card type suitable for use with a device embodying the invention. It comprises a stub 250 connected by a dotted severable line 251 to another stub 252, connected in turn by a dotted severable line 253 to a portion 254, whose dimensions are substantially the same as those of the panel 211. Stub 254 is in turn connected by a dotted severable line 255 to a stub 256.
  • the stub 250 is identical to that of a conventional machine-readable card.
  • the stub 252 receives adhesive labels, and the stub 256 provides a space 258 for recording the results of analysis ofa sample contained in the receptacle 202 or in a tube T mounted in the receptacle of the device 200 to which the card is detachably fixed by means of the clip 231.
  • the stub 254 contains a hole 259 slightly larger than the diameter of the stud 221 and a rectangular opening 260 to receive lug 216. Slots 261 and 262 and perforations 263 and 264 are provided on dotted lines 253 and 255 to permit passage of the lugs 235 to 238 of the clip 231.
  • the design of the panel 211 makes it possible to perforate the stub 254 of the card 230 as shown at 265 without separating the card from the panel and therefore from the tube device, so that reading and writing of the data provided by the perforations in the card are linked unequivocally to the contents of the receptacle 202 of the tube T mounted in the receptacle (or of a sample directly placed therein).
  • the stub 254 of the card 230 fixed to the device 200 by the clip 231 is removed.
  • the device 200 is provided with another card 230 by positioning the latter on the stud 221 and lug 216 by means of its perforations 259, 260, passing the lugs of the clip 231 through the slots 261 to 264 in the card and snapping the clip 231 on to the longitudinal edges of the panel 211, so that another sample can be assigned to the device so equipped.
  • the data carried on the card can be safely read.
  • Some of the stubs making up the card can easily be separated from one another along the slo tline s 251, 253 and 255 by making them cooperate with the longitudinal edges of the face 210 of the tube device;
  • the tube device 200 may be equipped with an auxiliary tube device A (FIG. 11), fitted to and re+ V moved from that side of the device 200 diametrically opposite the panel 211 by means of cooperating guides with mating cross-sections on the devices 200 and A.
  • V auxiliary tube device A
  • a main body defining a receptacle for a tube contain- I ing the sample to be analyzed, a panel unitarily provided on said body, said panel having a plane surface and projecting longitudinal edges of predetermined shape,
  • a clip member detachably securable to said panel and 2 including a plate portion having cooperating shape with said panel for enabling an informationcarrying member to be kept between said plane a surface of said panel and said plate, a plurality of resilient grasping lugs provided on the periphery of said plate portion, said grasping lugs i being adapted to engagewith said longitudinal edges, and

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FR717123072A FR2142746B1 (ja) 1971-06-24 1971-06-24
CH796572A CH544579A (de) 1971-06-24 1972-05-30 Probenbehälter
CA144,089A CA1007554A (en) 1971-06-24 1972-06-07 Sample tube device
NL7208185.A NL156067B (nl) 1971-06-24 1972-06-15 Monsterhouder.
GB2838172A GB1401668A (en) 1971-06-24 1972-06-16 Sample tube devices
DE19722230599 DE2230599B2 (de) 1971-06-24 1972-06-22 Probenbehaelter zur verwendung bei chemischen oder biochemischen analysen
DE19722265204 DE2265204A1 (de) 1971-06-24 1972-06-22 Aufzeichnungsunterlage in form einer markierten lochkarte oder dergleichen
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US5254315A (en) * 1991-07-26 1993-10-19 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Carrier device
US5651941A (en) * 1992-06-29 1997-07-29 Dade International Inc. Sample tube carrier
US5627076A (en) * 1995-11-13 1997-05-06 Baker Hughes Incorporated Method for determination of glycols and polyglycols in drilling fluid filtrates
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US8845985B2 (en) 2006-09-21 2014-09-30 Abbott Laboratories Specimen sample rack
US9144801B2 (en) 2010-08-31 2015-09-29 Abbott Laboratories Sample tube racks having retention bars
US9943849B2 (en) 2010-08-31 2018-04-17 Abott Laboratories Sample tube racks having retention bars
US9513303B2 (en) 2013-03-15 2016-12-06 Abbott Laboratories Light-blocking system for a diagnostic analyzer
US9632103B2 (en) 2013-03-15 2017-04-25 Abbott Laboraties Linear track diagnostic analyzer
US9993820B2 (en) 2013-03-15 2018-06-12 Abbott Laboratories Automated reagent manager of a diagnostic analyzer system
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CA1007554A (en) 1977-03-29
NL156067B (nl) 1978-03-15
GB1401668A (en) 1975-07-16
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CH544579A (de) 1974-01-15
FR2142746B1 (ja) 1973-06-29

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