Abstract: A testing method and apparatus for use at service stations to establish whether gasoline refueling systems meet government regulations for gasoline vapor emission. The apparatus includes a boot used to surround a gasoline dispensing nozzle while delivering gasoline to an automobile gas tank. The boot is of flexible material and has a hollow wall defining a vapor collection chamber, the inner part of the hollow wall having apertures distributed over its surface to allow gasoline vapor to be drawn into the chamber by suction. The outer part of the hollow wall has a stub connectable to a tube leading to vapor emission analyzing equipment. In the method, such a boot is used to recover the emitted vapors directly from the vehicle-nozzle interface region and the recovered vapors are drawn by a pump through a flow meter and delivered to an analyzer.

Abstract: Disposable pipette tips are loosely fitted in an upright position through apertures in a tray which is supported to withstand a downward force exerted on a tip by a pipette which is inserted and wedged into a tip when attaching the same to the pipette. Means are provided to retain the loosely fitted tips in the tray during shipment of the tips to the user thereof.