Abstract:
A laboratory temperature controlling apparatus including container-like wells (2) disposed in a unit in a plane. Heating devices and cooling devices drive the wells. The wells have thin walls, and the heating devices include electrically powered heating wires that are coiled around the exterior surface of the wells. The coiled heating wires generally match an external contour of the wells. The cooling device may be a blower disposed to blow air over the exterior surface of the wells.
Abstract:
A configuration of mini-volume reaction receptacles (1, 16, 41) of which the housings (2, 17) each enclose an elongated chamber (3, 18, 42) of which the ends are connected to apertures (6, 7, 20, 22) of the particular housing, said housings exhibiting the same base surfaces and being of low height compared to the base surface and are stacked one on another while their base surfaces are mutually aligned, at least one aperture of a receptacle communicating with at least one aperture of a consecutive receptacle as seen in the direction of stacking, said configuration being characterized in that the receptacles (1, 16, 41) are mechanically interlocked in the direction transverse to the direction of stacking and can be plugged one into another, and each receptacle comprises at least one aperture (6, 7, 22) accessible to a pipette at its top side.