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Linear specimen shaker

US8016218B1 · kind B1 · utility

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9Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 16, 2011
Grant dateSep 13, 2011
Priority date—
Expiry dateMar 16, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC12M27/16
  • WIPO fieldBiotechnology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Disclosed is a linear shaker apparatus capable of effectively mixing a wide variety of large volume liquid samples that provides a near linear mixing motion so as to allow for the easy break up of solids suspended in the fluid sample. The longer shaking distances and slower operating speeds employed by the linear shaker described herein, which resembles the motion a scientist or lab technician might employ when shaking such a vial by hand, does not lend itself to the electromagnetic technique employed in various prior art shakers. The linear shaker described herein employs an electric motor and linkage that allows varying the speed and stroke of the mixing operation to accommodate different laboratory protocols.

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