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Unitary specimen collection tube and microscope slide device

CA 1300409 C · Owner: Davstar California, Inc. · Inventors: Muller, Louis F.

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Abstract, The device has a flat, elongated self-supporting, preferably transparent backing strip and a transparent front strip bearing side and bottom flanges bonded to the backing strip. Both strips are preferably plastic and the front strip is vacuum molded to a configuration which defines with the backing strip an upper open-topped hollow specimen collection tube for urine samples and the like and a lower microscope slide having an internal chamber. An intermediate narrow bore, hollow conduit, preferably about 0.06 inch diameter, interconnects the slide chamber with the lower interior portion of the collection tube so, that sediment and the like can gravitate from the collection tube …

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  • Granted May 12, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 12, 2009.
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FiledSeptember 10, 1986
GrantedMay 12, 1992
Term endedMay 12, 2009
Patent numberCA 1300409 C
Classification (IPC)G02B21/34

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19871990199319961999200220052008Application filedSep 10, 1986Patent grantedMay 12, 1992Term endedMay 12, 2009

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