System for handling specimens and other substances in medicine and physical sciences

Abstract

Abstract A METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING, PROCESSING, TESTING, STORING, TRANSPORTING AND OTHERWISE USING BIOMEDICAL, BIOLIGICAL, CHEMICAL AND OTHER SPECIMENS, REAGENTS AND SUBSTANCES FROM THE TIME OF THEIR INITIAL PROCUREMENT THROUGH THEIR TANSPORT, STORAGE AND ULTIMATE LABORATORY OR OTHER USAGE AND FINAL DISPOSAL. THE SYSTEM EMBODIES THE USE OF A LENGTH OF TRANSPARENT OR TRANSLUCENT, RESILIENT, STERILE AND DISPOSABLE TUBING DIVIDED BY HEAT OR OTHER SEALS INTO S SERIES OF LINKED AND SEALED SEGMENTS, INDIVIDUAL SEGMENTS ARE SEVERED FROM THE STRING OF SEGMENTS AS NEEDED, FILLED WITH A FRESHLY PROCURED SPECIMEN OR REAGENT, AND THEN RESEALED MECHANICALLY WITH A SELECTIVELY REMOVABLE CLIP TO WHICH AN IDENTIFICATION TAG CAN BE ATTACHED. ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT SEALING OF A TUBE SEGMENT CAN BE ACHIEVED AS NEEDED FOR SEPARATION OF SUBSTANCES THROUGH THE USE OF ADDITIONAL CLIPS. A MODIFICATION OF THE APPARATUS INCLUDES THE USE OF A SWAB AND TRANSPORT MEDIA TO PROCURE, CONTAIN AND TRANSPORT OR STORE MICROBIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS.

Inventors

• 👤 Donald E Pickering

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