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At-a-Glance

Reliable - Over 90% of all harvester

are still in service

Serviceable - Automated cleaning

cycle and removable tips

User Friendly - Intuitive controls for

either Manual or Automated

operation

The Harvester96™ is cost effective, simple to use and designed to

last for decades. Tomtec Life Science has been servicing the

laboratory automation community for over thirty years, and

shipping best in class cell harvesters for over twenty of those

years. Based on a highly reliable and eloquent design, the

Harvester96 is a rugged cost effective bench-top lab instrument,

designed to harvest biologies from a 96 well microplate or

microtubes onto a glass fiber filter map in a small bench-top

footprint.

Cost effective - Affordable manual

version or up-scale automated

version

Safe - Safety shutoffs and Autotrap

level sensor to eliminate spillage of

contaminates

The Cell Harvester9B operation and features

Microplate or Microtubes contents are transferred via a unique and

controlled aqueous wash cycle, designed to gently suspend

adherent biologies. Each of the 96 wells is individually processed

by a unique flow tip design, which washes the well wall, from the

top down, while regulating well levels. The suspended material is

aspirated from the bottom of the well and drawn directly into the

sterile glass fiber filter map which is pressure sealed between a double "O" ring arrangement. Biologies are

collected onto targets on a 8 x 12 grid with 9 mm centers; making them quantifiable by a wide range of

measuring instruments such as a scintillation counter.

One of the key imperatives of maintaining any flow-chemistry instrument is keeping pathways and collection

sites clean. The Harvester96 has evolved over the past 20 year with this key imperative in mind. Not only is

there a fast and efficient automatic rinse cycle, but tips can be easily removed, ultrasonically cleaned or

replacement in minutes. To ensure continuous, uninterrupted operation great care and thought went in to

minimizing the number of internal moving parts. To that end, there are only five industrial-grade stainless steel

solenoid valves, with a MTBF in the thousands of hours. The result is a robust instrument; where nearly all

the units we have sold over the years, are still in service making it the most reliable and cost effective cell

harvester available today.

Tomtec Life Science offers two versions, manual for small budget-conscience labs and a more automated

version for high-end BioPharma labs and research facilities. The manual system is equipped with a simple

push and hold controls interface, while the automated version can be programmed with up to 16 unique

procedures. Both versions are based on the same core industrial design.

Tomtec Life Science

1000 Sherman Ave., Hamden, Connecticut 06514

+1.877.866.8323