Patent ID: 8701507

Claim:
A metering apparatus having a metering pipette ( 1 ) which includes a metering body ( 3 ) and a piston ( 4 ) which is longitudinally displaceably guided in the metering body ( 3 ); and a metering attachment ( 2 ) which is connected or connectable to the metering pipette ( 1 ) and includes a stop body ( 16 , 16 ′) having a stop ( 17 , 17 ′) for the piston ( 4 ), wherein the metering attachment ( 2 ) has a semi-cylindrical body ( 11 ) with a connection part ( 12 ) at one end thereof for fixed connection to the metering body ( 3 ), the metering attachment ( 2 ) is externally situated upon the pipette ( 1 ) without additional covering such that the stop body ( 16 , 16 ′) is accessible from the open side of the semi-cylindrical body ( 11 ) upon the metering attachment ( 2 ) at all times, the metering attachment ( 2 ) contains a scale displayed thereon, and the piston ( 4 ) has a disk-shaped stop ( 7 ) positioned on an upper end thereof and arranged, together the stop body ( 16 , 16 ′), to prevent the piston ( 4 ) from being pulled out of the metering body ( 3 ) further than a level of the stop body ( 16 , 16 ′) on the metering attachment ( 2 ), by the stop ( 7 ) and stop body ( 16 , 16 ′) contacting each other at said level.