Patent ID: 7922707
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: B01L,G01N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A reagent cassette for an automated synthesis unit characterised in that it comprises an elongate body accommodating components of fluid circuitry, the body further defining at least one chamber for receiving a container having a puncturable cap, the chamber having a base supporting a spike for puncturing the puncturable cap of the container so as to render the interior of the container in fluid communication with at least a part of the fluid circuitry, wherein the chamber is sized to frictionally retain the container spaced from the spike and allows the container to be moved towards the base of the chamber so that the cap is punctured by the spike, wherein said spike ( 43 , 53 ) comprises an elongated body ( 5 ) defining a longitudinal bore ( 31 ) and having a tip ( 47 , 49 ) characterised in that said tip ( 47 , 49 ) is blunt.