B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – H
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
H
270/155
B65H 20/10 (2006.01) B65G 59/06 (2006.01) G01N 33/52 (2006.01) G01N 35/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1185280
ABSTRACT Apparatus and a process are disclosed for removing a single flexible member from a magazine capable of holding multiple flexible members. The magazine is designed to contain multiple elongated flexible members such that the bottommost flexible member is retained in the magazine by means of detents positioned on both sides of an opening located at one end of the magazine; each detent comprises a ledge extending at an angle greater than 90° and less than 180° from an end wall of said magazine. The apparatus also comprises a pick-up head or vacuum transport member which is capable of passing through the opening of the magazine and contacting a portion of the bottommost flexible member inside the magazine. By supplying a vacuum through the pick-up head or vacuum transport member the bottommost flexible member can be made to flex or bend sufficiently as the pick-up head is removed from the opening in the lower end of the magazine to effect the withdrawal of one flexible member (the bottommost flexible member) at a time from said magazine. The invention has particular applicability to the handling of test devices used in the determination of a particular constituent in a liquid sample.
401348
Miles Laboratories Inc.
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Llp
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