Patent ID: 8529847

Claim:
A reagent kit adapted for use in an analyzing apparatus having a pipetting device and a reagent container opening/closing device, the reagent kit comprising: a plurality of reagent containers, each with a top-side opening; a common reagent container support structure, or a plurality of reagent container support structures, in the latter case each of the reagent container support structures being associated to one of the reagent containers, wherein each reagent container is mountable or provided on the common or the associated reagent container support structure; and a plurality of reagent container caps, each of which is associated to one of the reagent containers, each reagent container cap being mountable or provided on the common or the associated reagent container support structure, wherein, in a plan view on the top side of the reagent kit, each reagent container cap is formed essentially rectangular, having two shorter edges and two longer edges, and wherein each reagent container cap comprises: a cap body, a lid hinged to the cap body so as to be pivotable around a pivot axis at least between a closed position and an opened position, wherein the pivot axis is essentially parallel to the shorter edges of the reagent container cap, and engagement means which are adapted to cooperate with the reagent container opening/closing device in order to pivot the lid between the closed position and the opened position, the reagent containers and the associated reagent container caps are arranged in a row along a connecting line in such a manner that the pivot axes of the reagent container caps are orthogonal to the connecting line, and that, for at least one of the reagent containers, when the at least one reagent container and the associated reagent container cap are provided on the common or the associated reagent container support structure, and when the lid of the associated reagent container cap is in the closed position, in a plan view on the top side of the reagent kit, an end portion of the cap body opposite to the pivot axis is not covered by the lid.