Patent ID: 7892504

Claim:
A pharmaceutical sample storage system, comprising: cases, said cases include samples, said cases are sealed to prevent the escape of said samples from said cases; a storage rack frame; each of said cases is hollow, includes four walls and is rectangularly-shaped in cross-section, each of said cases includes a top portion and a bottom portion, each of said cases is tapered from said top portion of said case toward said bottom portion of said case, each of said cases includes chamfered outer corner portions; said storage rack frame includes a lower grate-shaped bottom portion, said grate-shaped bottom portion includes cross members, said cross members are arranged in a matrix forming partitions; said cross members forming said partitions include through openings therebetween, said grate-shaped bottom portion includes supporting pins extending upwardly therefrom, said cases are removably stored between said cross members forming said partitions of said lower grate-shaped bottom portion, said supporting pins engaging said chamfered outer corner portions of each of said cases, said bottom portions of each of said cases residing between respective cross members forming said partitions of said grate-shaped bottom portion and between said upwardly extending supporting pins; each of said cross members forming said partitions of said grate-shaped bottom portion includes inner side surfaces; each of said inner side surfaces includes protrusions, each of said four walls of said cases includes a corresponding locking concave portion, and, said protrusions of each inner side surface of each of said cross members forming said partitions releasably interengage said corresponding locking concave portions of each of said four walls of said cases thereby securing said cases; said bottom portion of each of said cases extending through a respective through opening between said cross members forming a respective partition in said grate-shaped bottom portion; each of said cases disengageable from said respective through opening between said cross members of said partitions in said grate-shaped bottom portion by application of an upward force on said bottom portion of each said case extending through said respective through opening between said cross members forming said partitions enabling extraction of each said case upwardly by dislodging said protrusions of said inner side surfaces of said cross members forming said partitions of said grate-shaped bottom portions from said corresponding locking concave portions of each said case.