Patent ID: 7706061

Claim:
A microscope slide magazine comprising: a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, a first and second side wall, each having a forward edge and a rearward edge, said housing walls joined to form a rectangular box-like structure enclosing a void wherein each of said housing walls has an inner surface facing said void; said inner surface of said first side wall incorporating a plurality of equally spaced rails parallel to the bottom wall extending generally from said forward edge to said rearward edge; said second side wall incorporating a plurality of partially cut equally spaced slots, extending from the said forward edge at least partially to the said rearward edge, each of two successive slots defining a flexible finger attachedly affixed at one end to said second side wall and unsecured at the other end, said finger comprising a snap-fit microscope slide engagement structure; said inner surface of the said second side wall incorporating a second set of rails positioned to be co-planar to the said rails located on the inner surface of said first side wall; wherein said flexible fingers are configured to allow flexing of said finger outward from said second side wall when a microscope slide is pushed between adjacent co-planar rails found on said first and second side walls, and snap-fit engagement of said fingers about said microscope slide occurs when said microscope slide is fully engaged in said housing.