Patent ID: 8591840

Claim:
A carrier for pipette tips, with a frame ( 1 ), featuring four side walls ( 2 to 5 ), a plate ( 21 ) with a plurality of holes ( 23 ) for inserting pipette tips ( 36 ) and means for detachably connecting the frame ( 1 ) and the plate ( 21 ), that have contact surfaces ( 8 , 32 ) on the upper edge ( 7 ) of the flame ( 1 ) and on the underside ( 24 ) of the plate ( 21 ), which touch each other when the plate is put onto the flame ( 1 ), and that have guiding elements ( 9 , 33 ) directed transversally to the contact surfaces on the frame ( 1 ) and on the plate ( 21 ), which engage into each other with lateral clearance when the plate ( 21 ) is put onto the frame ( 1 ), the lateral clearance being designed whereby in case that hooked-up pipette tip occurs in an erroneous withdrawal by a metering tool and the plate is lifted along with the pipette tip through this and is in danger to fall out, there will be a toe-in between the guiding elements that engage with lateral clearance resulting in a release of the hooked-up pipette tip from the plate, so that the plate slips back onto the frame into its original position.