Patent ID: 6623956
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: C12M,Y10S

Abstract:
An incubator apparatus for use in culturing biological specimens contained in culturing dishes, said apparatus comprising:a) a rectangular specimen-culturing compartment, said culturing compartment including an opening in a wall thereof for accessing specimen-culturing dishes disposed in said culturing compartment; and b) at least one shelf in said culturing compartment, said shelf having back and side edges which abut back and side walls of said compartment, said shelf having a an open front edge which is accessible via said culturing compartment opening, said front edge of said shelf having a central recess which faces said opening so that said front edge indudes back and side portions having a planar upper culturing dish-supporting surface, said portions being essentially parallel to back and side walls of said compartment, said recess being operable to effectively increase the length of said front edge of said shelf to a degree which increases the number of specimen-culturing dishes that can be placed on said shelf dish-supporting surface and immediately adjacent to said front edge of said shelf.