Patent ID: 8623297
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A device for the preparation and fractioned dispensing of samples of a fluid contained in a tube, wherein the device comprises a body comprising: guide means adapted to receive a sample-taker member for taking samples of a fluid and for guiding it in translation within the device along an axis YY′, the guide means being constituted by a channel passing through the device along the axis YY′ and opening out in opposite sides of said device, the channel being shaped to receive the sample-taker member and to guide it in translation along the axis YY′ through the device until the end of the sample-taker member is introduced into the tube containing the fluid; and at least one preparation chamber including an introduction orifice and at least one dispensing orifice, wherein the guide means passes through the preparation chamber and communicates therewith such that an aliquot of a sample of fluid is dispensed into the chamber by the sample-taker member in a determined position thereof within the guide means, is mixed with an appropriate reagent introduced by means of the introduction orifice, and the mixture is expelled from the chamber by means of the dispensing orifice.