Patent ID: 6033627
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: A61B,B01L,B65D

Abstract:
A reclosable testing device, comprising:(a) abase member;(b) a cover member;(c) a fixed member fixed to the base member, the fixed member having an undercut edge;(d) a hinge between the base member and the cover member;(e) a testing element fixed to at least one of the base member or the cover member; and(f) closure means comprising an interrupted beveled edge on the cover member, the interrupted beveled edge being supplementary to the undercut edge and being adapted to be received and retained in a closed position with the undercut edge of the fixed member in an edge-to-edge engagement, the base member, the cover member, and the fixed member being formed of a sufficiently rigid material to minimize bowing on the closure thereby to ensure that a sample for testing and the testing element come into operable contact for effecting a test, and that a force is distributed substantially evenly over the cover member, thereby further ensuring that, together with the hinge between the base member and the cover member, and with the closure means, the closure force is substantially equally distributed along the length of the closure means; and wherein the beveled edge is interrupted with at least one uncut bridge region to increase the force required to separate the base member and cover member.