Patent ID: 7562776
Filing Date: 2009-07-21
Classification: B01L,G01N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a substantially rectangular body member, comprising a substantially planar front wall, a substantially planar first side wall connected to said front wall, a substantially planar second side wall connected to said front wall, a substantially planar back wall connected to said first side wall and said second side wall, and a substantially planar bottom wall connected to said front wall, said back wall, said first side wall and said second side wall, said front wall having at least one hole, said back wall having at least one hole and, said bottom wall having at least one hole; a plurality of substantially rigid microscope slides having substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape; a plurality of specimens affixed to a plurality of specimen zones disposed on one of the faces of each of the plurality of microscope slides; a plurality of ribs for maintaining a spaced relationship between said faces of each of the plurality of slides and maintaining a spaced relationship between said plurality of slides, said front wall, said first side wall, said second side wall, said back wall and said bottom wall, when said plurality of slides is substantially fully inserted in said plurality of ribs, wherein each rib has breadth substantially equal to the breadth of each of the plurality of slides and the spacing between said ribs is substantially equal to the height of each of the plurality of slides, said plurality of ribs being disposed in said body member, wherein said body member has a height sufficient to cause said plurality of specimen zones to be substantially completely disposed within said body member when said plurality of slides is substantially fully inserted in said body member and said body member has a cross-sectional area sufficient to receive said plurality of slides, said apparatus adapted to stain with a staining liquid intended to stain biological specimens the plurality of specimens affixed to a plurality of specimen zones disposed on one of the faces of each of said plurality of microscope slides when said plurality of microscope slides is substantially inserted into said body member.