Erik C Demelo

US Patent:

20070084749, Apr 19, 2007

Filed:

Oct 18, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/252959

Inventors:

Erik Demelo - Douglaston NY, US
Joseph Flaherty - Westford MA, US
Timothy Golnik - Boxford MA, US

Assignee:

AgaMatrix, Inc. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

B65D 69/00
B65D 71/00

US Classification:

206569000

Abstract:

A diagnostic test strip vial has a container, a lid, and a plurality of diagnostic test strips. The container has a generally annular wall terminating at a base and at an open mouth. The lid has a top and a lifting tray connected to the top by a connector that is sufficiently long that the distance between the top and the lifting tray is at least as long as the length of a diagnostic test strip and sufficiently short that the top may engage the open mouth of the container to close the vial when the lifting tray is engaged with the inner side of the annular wall of the container. The test strips are disposed on the lifting tray which is sized to slidably engage the inner side of the annular wall of the container.