Process and apparatus for preparing multi-component reagent solutions

US4279991A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Alexander Hagen · Tutzing, DE
• Hermann Edelmann · Tutzing, DE
• Sigmar Klose · Starnberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 1979
• Grant date: Jul 21, 1981
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/902
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention provides a process for the production of reagent solutions containing a plurality of components for analytical purposes, wherein the individual components of several differently composed reagents are each introduced into a solid, proportionable carrier material in easily redissolvable form in such an amount that each part by volume or weight of the carrier material carries a definite amount of one reagent component, the carriers of the components are brought together in a magazine-like manner and, for the production of a particular reagent, from all carriers which carry a component of the reagent, there are simultaneously taken off the amounts corresponding to the required amounts of the components, which are then dissolved to form the reagent solution. Apparatus for carrying out the process is also provided.