Our Product Lines
Horizontal Microplate Shakers
Vertical Microplate Shakers
The USC Vibroturbulator machines are high throughput vertical shakers that will rapidly mix the contents of wells in deep microplates or in long narrow tubes and vials. Liquids of differing specific gravities may be blended as well as powders rapidly dispersed in these deep tubes. No other shaker offers the high acceleration forces needed for this application. These high acceleration forces are the result of several high endurance leaf springs mounted horizontally attached to a magnetically driven armature at 50 or 60 cycles per second. There are no rubbing or wearing parts which results in very long life. We have not had a single return for service of these shakers during the past 12 years they have been sold.
Our standard models will mix the contents of 8 deep well plates in a matter of seconds.
Using 96 well plates provides 768 samples at once. Using 384 well plates yields 3072 samples at one time!
Vortexing Microplate Shakers
Almost all single vortexers can only shake one vial at a time by using a motor driven eccentric platform. When attempting to process multi-well microplates with small well volumes, an adapter required to hold more than 4 plates requires the alignment of multiple eccentrics within the shaker does not allow very small orbits. Mechanical wear is also a recurring problem.
The USC Vibratornado consists of two sets of high endurance leaf springs supporting a pair of shaking platforms that are driven magnetically at 90 degrees to each other. Further, the driving magnets are powered at 90 degrees out of phase with each other causing the sample platform to move in a modified circle. The diameter of this circle can be adjusted remotely and continuously by merely turning a potentiometer dial. An orbit of less than one half millimeter is easily achieved, and will generate a vortex inside the liquid filled wells of a 1536 microplate! A standard machine will vortex 18 such plates at once, providing a throughput of27,648 samples at one time. ( Download our scientific paper on “creating a vortex” from our web site.) There are no wearing or rubbing parts in these machines, hence no wear.
Vortexing Microplate Shakers
Almost all single vortexers can only shake one vial at a time by using a motor driven eccentric platform. When attempting to process multi-well microplates with small well volumes, an adapter required to hold more than 4 plates requires the alignment of multiple eccentrics within the shaker does not allow very small orbits. Mechanical wear is also a recurring problem.
The USC Vibratornado consists of two sets of high endurance leaf springs supporting a pair of shaking platforms that are driven magnetically at 90 degrees to each other. Further, the driving magnets are powered at 90 degrees out of phase with each other causing the sample platform to move in a modified circle. The diameter of this circle can be adjusted remotely and continuously by merely turning a potentiometer dial. An orbit of less than one half millimeter is easily achieved, and will generate a vortex inside the liquid filled wells of a 1536 microplate! A standard machine will vortex 18 such plates at once, providing a throughput of 27,648 samples at one time. ( Download our scientific paper on “creating a vortex” from our web site.) There are no wearing or rubbing parts in these machines, hence no wear.