Patent ID: 8717674

Claim:
A collector assembly comprising: a collector configured as a hollow frustum comprising an upper edge defining an upper mouth opening and a lower edge defining a lower exit opening interface, said upper mouth opening having a larger area than said lower exit opening, said lower edge comprising at least a portion of a coupling mechanism; a funnel base having a bottom surface and a top surface, said top surface being configured to sealingly couple to said lower edge of said collector with said at least portion of a coupling mechanism, said funnel base further comprising a drain conduit that penetrates said base; a fluid pump having an input port that is operatively connected, by an optional external drain tube, to said drain conduit and an output port operatively connected by a disposal conduit to a drain and operatively driven by computor processing; and an isolatable filter dimensioned and configured to be able to reside between said collector and said funnel base when said collector and said base are coupled to one another where said filter is further dimensionally configured to be capable of residing entirely on the surface of a conventional microscope slide and covered by a conventional coverslip.