Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatically aliquotting liquids, such as blood serum, is described. The invention provides a completely automatic, clean, self-contained system for collecting and aliquotting liquids and simultaneously cleaning the aliquotting system. The system includes a serum loading station, a sensing station, an indexing table for advancing test tubes to a collection station, an aliquotting station and a wash station.
Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatically aliquotting liquids, such as blood serum, is described. The invention provides a completely automatic, clean, self-contained system for collecting and aliquotting liquids and simultaneously cleaning the aliquotting system. The system includes a serum loading station, a sensing station, an indexing table for advancing test tubes to a collection station, an aliquotting station and a wash station.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring sample holders to and from workstations positioned along a transfer path, including an entrance support having a first transfer for supplying the sample holders to the transfer path, an exit support for receiving the sample holders from the transfer path, a second transfer for transferring the sample holders along the transfer path past the workstations and a controller for coordinating the actuation of the first and second transfers and the workstations.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring sample holders to and from workstations positioned along a transfer path, including an entrance support having a first transfer for supplying the sample holders to the transfer path, an exit support for receiving the sample holders from the transfer path, a second transfer for transferring the sample holders along the transfer path past the workstations and a controller for coordinating the actuation of the first and second transfers and the workstations.