Patent ID: 7858043

Claim:
A device, which comprises: (I) a microreactor, said microreactor having an open neck and a hollow containment area of predetermined volume for conducting a chemical process, said open neck being cylindrical; (II) a multiport cofinger stopper, including: (a) a main housing, said main housing having a top and a bottom, and sidewalls, and having: (i) a central orifice passing from said top to said bottom, said central orifice being located toward a center of said top, said central orifice including a cofinger; (ii) a cofinger located in and extending through said central orifice from said top to said bottom, said cofinger being a set of at least two tubes, at least one being an inner tube and one being an outer tube, said outer tube having a top and a bottom and being open at said bottom of said outer tube, said bottom of said at least one inner tube being located inside said outer tube wherein at least one of said inner tubes includes an elbow section extending through and outward from said outer tube, said elbow section being located within said stopper main housing, and extending through and outwardly from said sidewall of said main housing (iii) a plurality of outer orifices located about said central orifice; (b) sealing means on said sidewalls of said main housing for sealably connecting said stopper to an opening of a microreactor; and, (c) physical characteristic measuring means connected to at least one of said outer orifices.