Patent ID: 6971506
Filing Date: 2005-12-06
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. A test tube carrier for transporting test tubes in a transport system, said carrier comprising a base having a recess made thereto for accommodating the bottom of a test tube/vial; and support members adapted to the carrier base for clamping a test tube inserted in said test tube recess and supporting the same, said support members being permanently affixed to said carrier base and comprising elongated portions with their free ends bent toward the vertical center axis of the carrier base and said upper ends providing a support surface for making supportive contact to the test tube, characterized in that wherein the support surface of said support members is arranged to extend to at least two different heights from the top level of the carrier base and said carrier base being assembled from two concentrically insertable parts leaving therebetween recesses into which the lower ends of said support members are permanently affixed.