摘要:
An automatic culture apparatus includes an airtight casing, a culture vessel platform, a culture observation platform and a separation/distribution work platform disposed in layered configuration with suitable vertical spacings between them. A drive system for the apparatus comprises an opening formed centrally in each of the platforms; a culture vessel carrier for conveying a culture vessel to each of the platforms through the openings; a transfer arm for loading and unloading a culture vessel on or from the carrier and any one of the platforms; a first drive mechanism for operating the carrier and the transfer arm; and a second drive mechanism for driving any one of the platforms. The second drive mechanism is mounted hermetically in the casing. By operating suitable drive mechanisms to actuate the various parts, a culture vessel may be automatically transferred and distributed on each of the platforms without causing contamination in a safe and efficient manner, for automatic growth of the medium being cultured under an optimum environment.
摘要:
The invention relates to the conditioning of a sample of a liquid for medical analysis. The conditioning device according to the invention, comprises a plurality of calibrated peripheral cells connected to a central receptacle and includes, for each cell, ducts including an air inlet orifice for conveying the sample from the receptacle to said cell to completely fill the cell by centrifuging and an air escape orifice in each cell for the escape of the air contained in said cell closer to the axis of rotation than said inlet orifice and leading into said receptacle, said orifices further being dimensioned so as to retain the liquid contained in each cell after complete filling thereof.
摘要:
For microbiological and other laboratory work in which supporting elements carrying an active substance is brought into contact with a substrate there is provided a supporting element of tubular or other shape and adapted to be forced through the substrate to the bottom of the same and thereby wholly or partly to confine an area of the substrate. The element carries the active substance on the side facing the confined area and isolates it from the substrate on the opposite side. The supporting element may comprise magnetic material and be pulled to the bottom of the substrate by magnetic force.
摘要:
An electrical sensing and stimulation electrode small enough to record intracellular activity within a single living cell. The electrode incorporates a cylindrical chamber with a finely tapered end section. The chamber is evacuated to hold the cell at its tip. Contained within the chamber are piping, circuitry, and controls to provide selected life support environment, stimulation, and continuous sensing of the iternal ionic composition of the captured cell.
摘要:
A self-supporting plastic structure having a plurality of through-passages, each passage being of cross-sectional shape and area such that walls thereof provide a large amount of surface area relative to a substantially small amount of space cross-sectional area, each through passage having an upper funnel portion for receiving liquid, and a small outlet aperture of a smallness sufficient to effect a retention of liquid drop(s) within space of the through-passage by capillary action in the absence of additionally added fluid which by weight thereof forces liquid from the outlet aperture, and a separate washer structure seatable above the plastic structure and having a main liquid-containable vessel defined with a plurality of open outlets in the base thereof aligned for feeding contained liquid into separate ones of the through-passages simultaneously for the concurrent washing of each and all and/or for concurrent adding of further reagent or the like simultaneously concurrently to each and all.
摘要:
A tissue culture cluster dish, having a lid which may be removably placed on a base having formed in it a plurality of wells for the placement and growth of tissue cultures; the wells having well bottoms which are transparent and flat for easy viewing of the well contents, the well bottoms being elevated above the plane in which the base makes contact with any horizontal planar surface upon which the base is placed; the base having ribbing which extends below and surrounds the well bottoms, the base further having a base rim of sufficient vertical extend for easy grasping and holding; the lid coming in contact with and being supported by the base only through protrusions upwardly extending from the base, thereby assuring atmospheric communication between the well interiors and the outside of the dish; the lid having ridges to prevent transfer of moisture from the area above one well to that above any other well; and the lid fitting on the base only in one orientation.
摘要:
Microorganisms and tissue cells are cultured in culture media which contain a growth support. Such support is often agar. All microorganisms and tissue cells which are grown and propagated on an agar support in a culture media are also grown and propagated under the same conditions on a solid or semi-solid support, consisting essentially of an inorganic water-swellable material and water, containing the same amounts of the same materials otherwise contained by the culture medium with the agar support.
摘要:
A steam reformer provided with a plurality of double-tube type reforming tubes fixed vertically and in gastight fashion on a tube sheet which divides a cylindrical vessel into the upper pressure vessel and the lower pressure-vessel, wherein a mixture of hydrocarbons and steam is introduced from the upper pressurevessel into the reforming tubes and the steam-reforming reaction is effected within the lower pressure-vessel by the use of a high-temperature and high-pressure helium gas as the heatsource.
摘要:
Means for culturing microorganisms in an environment enriched with a particular gas is disclosed. The culturing means comprises a microbiological nutrient means capable of supporting microbiological growth and a composition for producing controlled release of the particular gas. A test kit for presumptive identification of microorganisms is also provided comprising the above described culturing means and an indicator for the microorganism being detected. Such culturing means and test kit are particularly useful in culturing and identifying Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
摘要:
A sterile plate package providing a temporary plate unit in a disposable sealed wrapper, of which the unit provides a column of spaced plates slidably received on a disposable arbor and releasably held thereon by resilient rings on the arbor at the opposite ends of the column.