Patent ID: 6159424
Filing Date: 2000-12-12
Classification: A61B,H04M,Y10T

Abstract:
A portable apparatus for handling measurement strips needed for taking liquid samples, the measurement strips having liquid absorbing material for absorbing a liquid sample, the apparatus comprising first and second elongate storage boxes having first and second ends, respectively, in side by side immediately adjoining relationship, the first storage box adapted to store unused measurement strips in a first upright stack, the second storage box adapted to store used measurement strips in a second upright stack to temporarily retain them for subsequent sanitary disposal and a measurement strip feeding mechanism for transporting measurement strips from the second end of the first storage box to the second end of the second storage box, one by one, via a position at which the measurement strips receive the liquid samples, the second ends, respectively, of the first and second storage boxes being in immediately adjoining relationship.