Laboratory Glassware
- 1L 4-neck Flask
even "standard" lab glass is still made by hand.
- Variable Reflux Distilling head
Reflux is achieved by rotating the cold finger to redirect the distillate; detail here.
- Jacketed Reactor w pour spout
per client request.
- Long path distillation head
featuring jacketed and evacuated vigreaux condensing column for efficiency.
- Jacketed beaker
with #15 internally threaded side port and teflon bushing for instrumentation.
- Heat exchanger
for research at Stanford University.
- Laboratory glass
The venerable Erlenmeyer flask with a jacket for temperature control -
and pretty cute too!
- 15L Beaker
sporting a robust GL45 glass threaded drain.
- High efficiency reflux condenser
for research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- Kugelrohr bulbs
A short path distillation apparatus
- Modified Dean Stark Trap
cGMP glassware designed around #40 oring joints.
- custom Soxhlet extractor
These 3L extractors were shipped to the Icelandic Institute of Natural History.
- Arsenic test apparatus
- Dean-Stark w/vacuum jacket
another iteration with 14/20 ground joints and 2mm teflon stopcock.
- Compact condenser
classic laboratory glassware, sporting 24/40 standard tapered joints.
- Steam distillation units
- 250ml bubbler
It bubbles. Through a course frit.....
- testing apparatus
specifically, ASTM G36 testing stress corrosion cracking apparatus. See the setup disassembled here.
- Solvent trap
with a glass stopcock; to be used with vacuum
- Vacuum transfer adapter
- Jacketed Erlenmeyer flasks used as receivers with a cyclone
- Jacketed test tubes
these jackets have been evacuated, to insulate the tubes from temperature fluctuations.
- Ammonia Condenser
- Powder addition funnel
utilizing a teflon auger to drive powder into the mix.
- 5L water trap per customer request
- Large beaker
custom fabricated 10" internal diameter and 19+ liter volume.
- 5L jacketed beaker with drain
designed for a testing protocol, and features a 6mm teflon stopcock bottom drain.
- unjacketed beaker
the same outside profile as the jacketed beaker, per customer request.
- 5L jacketed beaker without drain
for another customer who doesn't require the stopcock. These kinds of modifications are routine.
- Small jacketed beaker
We make small ones too.This one is ~65ml in volume.
- Liebig condenser
custom configuration of a venerable piece of laboratory glassware.
- Glass Ozone reactor glassware for research at our local Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- NW 50 flanges with knuckle clamp and o-ring seal
- 1Liter glass reaction vessels
with bottom port and without; made from Schott DN100 flanges
- Biometer flask
for determining carbon dioxide evolution by microorganisms
- 80mm reflux splitter
constructed from QVC industrial glass pipe fittings.
- custom Bell Jar
featuring a 140mm ID, and fitted with a port for a standard septum
- Glass Soxhlet extractor featuring DN100 flange opening, 3" body, and 7-1/4" height to the siphon
- 3L Morton style flask for increased agitation of contents
- Jacketed glass bioreactors
- Distillation glassware for steam distillation
- Vigreaux column
classic lab glass
- Vacuum Jacketed Vigreaux column
makes for more efficient distillation.
- Graham Condenser Classic Scientific Glassblowing!
- distillation glassware per request; destined for the West Indies
- Glass Moncada Cell
QT Moncada apparatus with #18 clamp
- Franz cell for skin permeation testing
- 1L savant style trap
with 1/2" heavy wall inlet and outlet for swage fittings
- Savant style traps 1L and 4L glass traps
- 4L Savant trap
with GL14 threaded hose connections
- cGMP glassware
custom glassware for custom peptide production.
- Cyclone and receiver
- Test tubes!
Test tubes are one of the first things people think of when they learn we are scientific glassblowers. Machine made tubes are the economic norm, but if you need something special or high tolerance, yes, we make test tubes. The tubes above are used in a heating block, and the user wanted a close fit for good heat transfer.
- Vials
modified by the thousands! These were cut down and fire polished for a specific application.
- TLC chamber
or Thin layer chromatography jar, with a flat bottom.
- 4.5L glass beaker
custom glass beaker with very flat bottom
- Glass digestion tube or simply another variation on the humble test tube
- Amber 50ml vessel for photosensitive compounds
- Glass Jacketed Beaker for a calibration protocol
- Custom Beaker
- Glass Sulfonation vessel reaction chamber with 8" opening
- Custom short path distillation head featuring vigreux indentions, and a vacuum jacket. The client wanted a longer condenser...
- Distillation head featuring a vacuum jacketed Vigreux column for improved performance
- 3L jacketed beaker
cGMP Glassware
- Swizzle sticks for simple swizzling
- Small scale microdistillation with icewater condenser
- 125ml Erlenmeyer with threaded closure. It's a pleasure to replace plastic with GLASS!
- Jacketed 1L vessel with plastic safety coating
- Small bubbler
with all the bypasses...
- Bubbler
with bypasses
- Laboratory glassware
This piece is actually a movie star! It was sent to Sweden along with some other glassware to appear in a lab scene for a movie. These types of scenes must surely have been the beginnings of our career....
- Microkjeldahl still for nitrogen determination by digestion
- Microkjeldahl still assembled
shown with heating coil.
- 10 ml Addition Funnel
- Glass membrane weight you gotta make peace when you can!
- Dean Stark trap with 14/20 joints
- Hickman still
10ml mini-distillation apparatus
- Perfusion glassware
- Double Reflux Condenser
- Modified Savant Trap
with o-ring joint to allow removal of insert. This allows the inevitable ice plug to be thawed slightly and drop out.
- Inline foam stop filters for use in rotovaps and lyophilization as foam and particulate stops
- Adapters We can adapt anything to anything!
- 12L receiver for use with a wiped film evaporator
- Thick glass windows
Firepolishing the edges of windows for strength. Installed in plasma chambers.
- 50L 5 neck flask
Flask configurations are always a matter of preference
- Modified 20L bottle for serious closure!
- Vigreaux columns
- Allihn Condenser
- Jacketed addition funnel
- 3L Soxhlet Extractor
- Air Locks
or bubblers, for vacuum lines.
- Glass pressure vessels features heavy-walled glass and teflon plugs for reactions at higher pressures
- Glass diffusion pump for high vacuum
- 5L Stirred jacketed reactor
the jacket on this reactor will be cooling the reaction for work in medicinal chemistry. See a picture with the head removed here.
- NMR tube cleaner
with unbreakable SS solvent tube. See an exploded view.
- NMR tube cleaner, exploded
See the assembled version.
- Oil bubblers
- Funnels with Ace thread connections
- Mini cold fingers
- Small liquid-liquid extractors
- Sand blasted glass cylinder a finish often used for lighting fixtures, or "hurricanes"
- Blooper nobody is perfect :)
- Sand blasted lamp for a "frosted" surface
- Glass adapters
Striaght and angled #11 internal thread to 28/12S with nylon bushings; for environmental testing.
- internal thread crossection
cross section shows seal of 1/4inch tube into a reactor head
OEM Glass
- spacer/window
These windows are water-jet cut from 1/2" borofloat plate, then fire-polished in an oven. They will be sandwiched in an assembly such that the process can be monitored through the side of the window.
- 2 inch all glass denuder
These denuders provide a clean, large surface area for air sampling devices; a decaled number helps track the various samples.
- Pyrex windows sight glass for plasma chambers
- Small glass denuder
provides a lot of surface area for an ozone monitor
- Custom tooled glass housing to fit snap on assembly. The unit is packed with activated carbon for deodorizing
- Gold-coated 8mm glass tube used as a sensor that is highly reflective and does not tarnish around water vapor
- Gold coated glass tubes for use in a medical device
- Polishing 6mm rod by the thousand - we build custom machines for large quantity jobs
- 10,000 glass stir rods
- precision tooling...
is one of our specialties - in glass, that is. Shown is a 90mm membrane support base tooled to fit stainless steel support screens. You can see more of this work on our filtration glassware page.
- All glass filter for sucking solvents
- Sight glass beveled edges on inside as well as outside
- Small centrifuge tubes to replace plastic!!
- 10L peptide reactor for a custom synthesis machine
- Electrochem cells for an automated echem system
- Bar coded glass slides for combinatorial chemistry
- Scan shield for an optical sorting machine
- Swizzle stick for serious martini swizzling
- Weighing chamber
- Small weighing chamber for an OEM glassware customer
- O-ring flange for receiver
- Lamp shade glass for high-end architectural lighting
- Glass sensor housing for a biologically implantable monitoring device. The glass bousing is redrawn tubing made in house to a custom profile.
- Glass diffusers with silcone suction cups to mount in fish tanks for bubbling of CO2
- Aquarium glassware for control and measurement of aquarium conditions
- Glass honeycomb denuders
made as a component in an air sampling device, developed for Harvard.
- 1L glass vessel reactors for a peptide synthesis machine
- Prototype OEM glass parts
Flanged tubing with captured threaded aluminum rings. Towards the development of an oxygen absorbtion unit.
- Glass housing for an oxygen absorbtion unit
- Peptide synthesis glassware with volumes ranging from 100ml to 2liters
- Sand blasted lamp for a "frosted" surface
- Slope meter prototype filled with oil and sealed. To replace plastic that was "yellowing" in large earth-moving equipment
- Packaging
a glass column for packaging radioisotopes. For use in medicinal chemistry.
- Thick glass windows
Firepolishing the edges of windows for strength. Installed in plasma chambers.
Custom Glassware
- Wafer etch bath with wafer
This image shows a 12 inch "wafer" supported on bottom indents. This beaker required a cover as well
- Small tissue chamber
designed for a 13ml volume and a specific aspect ratio. See a back-lit image here for more detail
- Custom glass test chamber for research into PVC cracking over long term use in appliances.
- Jacketed glass reservoirs
cGMP glassware to order.
- Fecal Catheter Column
Sometimes we are afraid to ask... ;)
The column (stretching off into the darkness) is 5 ft. long and is ported at the top and in the middle using hose barbs. - Mud slurry bubbler...
per sketch and discussion; with lots of porting.
- Purification Vessel
This glassware is designed to use a Schott DN200 glass flange with our custom teflon base.
Suspended nanometer-scale particles are settled onto the membrane and "washed" in place.
- Reservoir bottles
with conical bottom and side porting to suck the last drops, using the GL45 thread and an Ace thread port
- Glass perfusion dish
for continuous flow over standard lab slides
- Gas Sensor Calibration Chamber
built for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and uses a unique all glass diffuser.
- Borosilicate Gas Cell
with a hard-sealed window.
- Custom 9L Beaker
9liter capacity beaker with a 6mm Teflon stopcock outlet. The client asked for a decaled "fill" line as well.
- Custom glass cyclone
A two part design utilizing DN120 Schott flanges for a 5" ID. Also featuring custom inlet and outlets designed to interface with standard ShopVac hose, which will be used to drive the process. For another image, click here.
- Custom Soxhlet extractor
designed to clean a specific metal part
- Aerosil Drying apparatus
for vacuum-assisted drying of areosil; features a fritted top to support a filter to keep the Aerosil from being sucked-up by the vacuum pump.
- custom soxhlet extractor
functions well as a molecular sieve. Customer's design uses #40 oring joints.
- 10ml tissue bath Small jacketed bath with fritted inlet for bubbling oxygen
- jacketed tissue baths different volumes and/or profiles are easy to produce
- glass "jackets"
used to control temperature.
- Glass cylinder w ports...
lots of 'em!
- Cylinder with ports, rev2
here is the second iteration with several modifications;
- Cylinder with ports, top detail
The top uses a DN60 Schott flange, the side has a KF series stainless steel flange interface using an NW25 glass flange with knuckle clamp.
- Conductivity Cell
featuring multiple platinum seals.
- Simulation chamber
the jacket is evacuated, and the blank teflon caps allow for custom porting.
This vessel was prepared for research at NASA
- Yet another reservoir...
most glassblowing could be considered "custom", by virtue of being made by hand. This shows the standard GL45 thread, capped.
- Custom glass plasma chamber
for research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- 4L jacketed reactor
features a close fitting flat bottom for magnetic stirring and an 8 inch ID Schott flange opening
- Jacketed sparge tube
over a meter long! filled with salt for safe shipment overseas
- Custom cold trap
will variations never cease....?
- Wagner coil
Named after Mary Wagner of Emory University and used for perfuion; an iteration of the standard Graham condenser.
- 3 liter media bottle
utilizing the standard (and robust!) GL45 glass thread. There is no standard 3L version of this bottle
- More custom bottles
OEM glassware in 3L & 5L volumes
- custom shallow dish
sporting a 4mm teflon stopcock drain.
- Custom jacketed beakers
the smallest one in this picture is ~12ml, and is fitted with GL threads for hose barbs
- 10L jacketed media bottle
to deliver thermally buffered solutions
- Custom glass reservoir
low profile and tapered bottom for complete removal of contents
- Small jacketed bottle
shown with a teflon membrane cap
- 55L Modified glass Carboy
A standard 45L volume carboy blank was not quite enough for a client who had a height restriction as well. We spliced together two carboys for additional volume within the same height range as the blank. A DN100 flange provides sealing and porting opportunities.
- custom vials
Septum fittings are sealed onto heavy-walled tubing to accommodate higher pressures.
- 1L glass waste receiver
featuring KF40 glass to metal flange interface and plastic coating for safety.
- cGMP filtration glassware
custom glass requirements for cGMP production
- 3L custom stirred glass reactor
for work with polymers
- Custom glass tissue bath
with oxygen stream-driven circulation.
- Organ bath for ex vivo assays.
- 5 liter mixing funnel
featuring unique inserted Teflon baffling system
- Jacketed glass chemostat reactor
designed to mimic the interaction of oil on seawater
- Amberized 150 ml pear vessels
as reservoirs for photosensitive compounds, using the GL45 thread and cap.
- Custom volumetric flask for consistent mixing
- Cloud Chamber
10inch diameter glass chamber for UCB. Go here to see the chamber in action.
- Glass medical mold this glass mold produces polymer parts for a ventricular assist device
- Glass medical molds with precision-blown wall thicknesses for "nesting"
- Small Glass Jacketed Bioreactor
with threaded teflon bushings
- Jacketed glass beakers featuring tops lapped flat, and indented bottoms for magnetic "egg" stirring
- Odor Panel Permeation Tube
with honeycomb divider
- filter paper hold-down 7.5" glass disc waterjet-cut to custom configuration
- Odor Panel Permeation Tube
showing glass bead packing restrained by honeycomb
- glass flow tube for research on the surface chemistry of water drops
- large capacity glass bubbler to be used with oil
- Glass rectangular tank for Sakura DRS-60 autostainer
- Beaker for Sakura 4640
- Custom fritted bubbler 150mm P4 frit. Low profile!
- custom glass square cells because you can see through it. Made from redrawn tubing.
- Pyrex jar with center divider
and lid for uniform cooling of chemicals. Another happy customer.
- Sterility sample bottle
a disposable bottle used on-line to monitor quality during drug production.
Customer's design.
- Titration gas inlet
- 1L jacketed vessel with plastic protective coating
- 3L trap for GMP use
- Essential oil glassware a customer's design
- essential oils set-up
4L Erlenmeyer with drain & arms
- the Koehler dessicator a filter funnel dessicator designed by a beloved customer chemist Dennis Koehler
- Knudsen cell built to mimic high-altitude atmospheric conditions
- Standard Tapered Joint w custom teflon cap
a 60/15 STJ with custom teflon cap.
- GL80 glass thread with a 65mm ID opening; formed into custom 1L feed bottles
- Jacketed Flow tube - but really, it's The Barracuda! Another satisfied customer.
- Sight glass featuring heavy-walled tubing and custom scale
- Degassing column for degassing polymers; with honeycomb support for packing glass beads
- Jacketed biofuel reactors
glassware for biofuels research
- Xenon tube widget sometimes, that's the only name we get! for LBL...
- 3L jacketed glass vessel
designed with close fitting flat bottoms for magnetic stirring
- Jacketed bioreactor
with Schott flange head and foot access
- 3L glass reservoir
low profile per client request, with the GL45 thread.
- Glass Ozone Chamber with NW flanged interface for an Ozone generating UV light
- Quartz boat
with three compartments, made from 19 mm tubing, for use in a quartz tubular furnace.
- Glass sublimator vessel
showing a "cold finger" on a Schott DN100 flange in front
- 5L custom glass trap
definitely custom! A receiver for a large wiped film evaporator.
- Microtubes
for centrifugal protein crystallization for X-ray diffraction crystallography
- 50ml and 100ml reaction vessels
utilizing 38-430 glass threads
- Glass Reactor for NASA
used to mimic the possible early Martian atmosphere.
- Prototype glass reservoir features 1/4"-28 glass thread for interfacing with standard connections
- Jacketed glass gas mixer say that fast three times
- Turbulator!
a gizmo for creating turbulence during a stirred reaction. It's inserted and positioned through a standard 45/50 tapered joint.
- Large condenser for the distillation of natural essences
- Large soxhlet apparatus features 8" ID opening and access. Shown with condenser
- 6 inch flanged vessel
- 22L reactor flask
with custom long necks to allow for expansion of contents while in process
- Small weighing chamber
- Weighing chamber
- Milled slide with cover plate
- Vapor generating bubbler to produce a saturated gas stream
- Static mixer jacketed for thermally controlled mixing
- Biofilm reactor the realization of a web request for a "glass dohickey"
- Measuring reservoir with 1/4"-28 glass thread connection
- Cyclone for sorting particles from a spray drier
- Glass cyclone features a stainless steel flange inlet
- Jacketed collectors & delrin cap
These are basically jacketed 4" test tubes to be used as collectors with a glass cyclone.
- Cyclone with custom profiled inlet and stainless steel flanges
- Cyclone inlet
- a custom profiled inlet is prepared using a tooled carbon plug.
- custom glass cyclone shown with inlet o-ring and clamp, and exhaust porting connection thru teflon lined cap
- Glass cyclone featuring a custom profiled inlet; to fit into a Buchi spray-dry system
- Glass Dialysis Cartridge Medicinal glassware for research at John Hopkins University
- Jacketed glass cyclone with a custom profiled inlet...not trivial!
- Cyclone
another configuration; For particle separation from a Büchi spray drier
- Small glass cyclone for research into air-borne particles
- Unjacketed glass cyclone Custom inlet; for use with Buchi system
- Cyclones and receivers with off-the-shelf caps and teflon lined bushings
- Threaded glass collectors for use with glass cyclones and produced in various volumes. For work with inhaled drug delivery.
- Glass Tonometer
- Glass waste tank, with stainless steel flange
plastic coated for protection of the surface of the glass, and containment in case of disaster
- Glass aerosol dilution venturi to inject a standard concentration of an aerosol into a stream of air
- 4L jacketed glass reactor
- Mini crystalizer with integral stir bearing, using a DN60 Schott flange
- Glass Plasma Nozzle with lapped flanges at both ends; for research at the University of Washington
- Plasma torch reactor for mixing gasses
- 10ml jacketed tissue bath
Small jacketed vessel with fritted inlet for bubbling oxygen
- 40ml tissue bath a larger version of the 10ml bath
Electrochemistry glassware
- Jacketed Corrosion Test Cell
two mirrored halves, both with wells for magnetic stirring. The flanges are NW63 and their corresponding clamp and seal set.
- custom PEC Cell
short for "Photoelectrochemical". See it disassembled here.
- PEC cell
featuring a large quartz window glued in place.
- specialized electrochemical glassware
utilizing DN100 flanges for 4" ID vessels. We produced them unjacketed as well as jacketed.
Click the links for details of the Luggin Capillary and the salt bridge. - MFC100.50.2
NW50 flange on a 100ml media bottle
- 2.5L Jacketed vessel
glass tools for ongoing electrochemistry research. Detail image here.
- 4L Jacketed vessel
additional equipment for ongoing electrochemistry research.
- another PEC Cell
This cell sports a 1 1/2" quartz window and a "blank" teflon lid; for research at UCSD.
- electrochemical glassware
the researcher is interested in controlling the position of the Luggin Capillaries
in relation to the membrane separating the cells - H cell
two identical halves utilizing NW16 glass flanges. A picture of the cell clamped together is here.
- Custom electrochemical H-cell
with in-house machined, "blank" teflon caps.
- Glass Echem cell set
This h-style cell utilizes NW25 flanges. One side sports 5 ports (internal threads; 3x#7, #11, #15), and the other side is a single #15.
- H-Cell
with GL threads; #18 and #25. A P4 fritted disc separates the halves.
- PEC cell w two windows
This cell features two quartz windows mounted at 180 degrees.
The researcher anticipates having to change the windows, as he intends to be using nasty solvents.
The cell is shown partially disassembled here. - Quartz windows
Shown is another solution for attaching windows to cells using NW flanges and hardware, to avoid adhesive - solvent incompatibility. This photo shows an NW40 flange matched to a 55mm Quartz window.
- Electrochemical cell with borosilicate window
utilizing a 100-440 glass thread (~85mm I.D) and custom machined "blank" teflon head. Also, the borosilicate window has been fused to the cell.
- RRDE cell
designed such that the window won't be scratched.
- Jacketed electrochemical cell
RDE cell with vertical #7 porting, and shown with luggin capillary, bubbler, and teflon bushings
- Small volume electrochemical cell
shown with a porous vycor tip salt bridge and Pt electrode.
- Electrochemistry Reactors
glass liners with a precision tooled OD to fit a heating block.
- Custom electrochemical cell
with open bottom "skirt", teflon cap, bubbler, salt bridge, per sketch and discussion. A detail of the bottom can be seen here.
- Two compartment H-cell
connected with NW25 flanges to support a membrane, and featuring a jacket on one side.
- Glass Photoelectrochemical cell
per previous; with two quartz windows and five top ports
- Small photoelectrochemical cell
designed around a 45/12 tapered joint, and featuring a full diameter 2" quartz window mounted on the "bottom".
- Jacketed RDE cell
designed for use with a rotating disk electrode (RDE), and shown with it's luggin capillary.
- Photoelectrochemical cell
designed around a 60/15 tapered joint, and featuring a 1" quartz window.
- Small "H-cell"
featuring two quartz windows for optical opportunities. Another view of this cell is here.
- Spectroelectrochemical cell
A window will be coupled to the bottom joint, and the cell includes a custom teflon "blank" cap, and clamp & o-ring for #15 o-ring jt.
- Photoelectrochemical cell set
designed, in part, to measure evolved gasses. Also sports a quartz window. Another view of this cell is here.
- Photoelectrochemical H-cell
with a 1" diameter quartz window glued in place.
- Electrochemical cell set
showing different options for porting, including hose barbs.
- Photoelectrochemical cell set
with a membrane flange, quartz window, threaded ports for electrodes, and a taper joint port for a bubbler.
- Microbial fuel cells
with various volumes. These are made from 50ml and 100ml media bottles.
- Small glass RDE chamber
completed
- H style cell w quartz optical window
Utilizing NW50 flanges and 14/20 standard tapered joints to port into the body.
- Custom glass corrosion cell
Jacketed electrochemical cell per drawing and discussion. There is another image showing the luggin capillary here.
- custom electro-optical cell
featuring two quarts windows attached with adhesives, oriented at 90 degrees.
- Electrochemical cell
An internet request from Abu Dhabi. These cells are modelled on another image in this gallery, and modified to suit the client's needs.
- Microbial fuel cell assembled
membrane supported by NW flanges and held together with a knuckle clamp. See more here
- Conductivity Cell
featuring multiple platinum seals.
- Microbial Fuel Cell
another iteration of a previous job, for a different client. You can get what you want....
- small glass MFC
made from 50ml media bottles for continuing research at UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry
- 1L MFC
This set is built on 1L media bottles and sport NW50 flanges and hardware.
- custom H cell
a membrane is mounted between the cells, supported on the NW flanges.
- 1L Echem cell
This cell has several sizes of internal glass threads to port through the top, and is shown with the Nafion® membrane sandwiched between the NW40 side flanges. See the membrane being positioned here.
- Photoelectrochemical H-cell
with custom 800 ml compartments connected by a P4 25mm fritted bridge, in addition to a 40mm quartz window.
- Custom photoelectrochemical cell.1
A very custom configuration. The orings are intended to sandwich different membranes.
- Photoelectrochemical cell
featuring a 2" quartz window, and a manifold for gas purge of the electrolyte or flooding of the headspace.
- Glass optical echem cell
with quartz window glued in place.
- Double Jacketed H-cell
the capacity is ~150ml per side, which are both jacketed for temperature control.
- NW 50 flanges with knuckle clamp and o-ring seal
- Simple cell for plate electrode sits on a foil plate
- MFC retrofitted glass windows
Here's a fuel cell that requires autoclaving. The original Delrin cell came with plastic windows and the researcher asked that we replace them with borosilicate windows. We had them cut using a water-jet, then polished them in the oven.
- Custom glass echem cell
per customer design; it uses weirs to separate electrolytes
- Simple echem plate cell
- at least the glass portion was simple... and fitted to existing hardware. For research at Nasa.
- Simple electrochemical cell
a top view showing the plate electrode
- Jacketed glass reaction cell
features side porting through the jacketed vessel to sandwich a membrane
- custom echem cell
shown with teflon bushings
- echem cell
featuring NW 25 flanges to support a membrane, held together with a knuckle clamp
- Glass electrochemical cell
for use with insertable membrane bridge. Another view here.
- Custom glass cell another iteration; for use with insertable membrane bridge
- 1Liter jacketed echem cell
custom configuration per client; featuring NW50 flanges that support a membrane between the vessels.
- H-Cell with teflon caps
The bridge is a 30mm P4 frit, and the "blank" caps are fitted with o-rings for a snug , easy seal.
- Conductivity cell A Four-bore tube with two Pt electrodes sealed in two bores
- 1L Electrochemical cell
features glass NW 40 flanges to support a membrane open to air. A smaller version can be seen here.
- Jacketed glass cell
for electrochemistry using a rotating disc electrode
- Jacketed electrochemical cell another view, with the luggin capillary removed
- Un-jacketed echem cell
for use with rotating disk electrode
- Jacketed & Unjacketed RDE cells
the same cell configuration; the one on the right shown with a "jacket" for temperature control.
- glass electrodeposition cell with a "blank" teflon cap
- Jacketed glass cell
shown with insertable counter electrode and Luggin capillary
- 500mL jacketed echem cell
A check for leaks in the jacket....
- 500mL Jacketed cell
a second iteration; two top ports were unnecessary; see 942959. And another view of this cell is here.
- very custom salt bridge
fitted with a porous vycor tip attached with teflon heat shrink tubing.
- Microbial fuel cells
a two part design, featuring porting through standard septa
- Glass electrochemical cell prototype shown with its luggin capillary
- Microbial fuel cell
fitted with glass NW flanges for replaceable membranes
- Jacketed cell shown with "blank" teflon cap, bubbler and bridge
- Bubbler
detail shot of the gas bubbler. Designed to minimize "noise" to the system.
- Salt Bridge
- Custom glass cell
another iteration and another happy e-chemist doing research at the University of Connecticut
- Small echem cell simple design per customer
- Simple photoelectrochemical cell
with a quartz window in the side for UV transparency. The customer is happy.
- optical, electrochemical cell
Per request. Another view showing the window mount is here.
- Multiple OEM cells
for automated e-chemistry. See an assembled cell here.
- Jacketed electrochemical cell with a DN60 flange top, to provide easy access for cleaning
- Nimov electrochem cell for large scale electrochemistry
- 1L jacketed glass cell with close-fitting bottoms for magnetic stirring
- Custom electrochem cell
with a UV-transparent quartz window, and a large frit salt bridge to divide the compartments
- Glass photoelectric cell a quartz cell for optical transmission sealed to borosilicate glass with "graded" seals.
- two compartment echem cell
designed for use by the Chemistry dept. at the University of Maine
- Custom Microbial Fuel Cells
another iteration of a custom glass cell for research at Stanford University.
- another 2 compartment cell
cells are easily modified to fit your work.
- 3 chamber cell
another variation on this theme
- Three compartment echem cell
ordered by NASA for research with moon rocks! Features 24/40sides and 14/20 center. Also P5 fritted bridges
- custom electrochemical cell
with three compartments, per request
- echem cell iterations
a group shot of the various iterations
- Optical electrochemical cell
the rectangular chamber allows for a mylar window to be mounted.
- Glass electro-chem cell a simple "H" design. These were produced for a local college, for experiments in the classroom
- modified H cell
Echem cell half units with various volumes, and NW16 flanges for membrane
- Custom salt bridge
- Multiple salt bridges
with frits in both ends of the tubing
- Small multi-port cell FTIR cell
- Jacketed electrochemical cell
- Jacketed electrochemical cell in yet another incarnation
- Echem Pt electrode
- Baby echem cells
with platimum electrodes
- Photo-optical cells
fabricated from redrawn square glass tubing, with optically flat windows at the ends.
- Jacketed glass cell includes well for magnetic stirring
- Electrochemical cell with Quartz window 1
The photoelectrochemical cell is prepared for the quartz window by sealing on the appropriate sized tubing.... then
- Electrochemical cell with Quartz window 2
...the tube is cut square and prepared for gluing on an optically flat quartz disc for UV transmission.
- 68 liter tank for echem with the top lapped flat for sealing. Fashioned from two 45L carboys
- Photoelectrical cell series 1
The window seat is an appropriate size of tubing sealed to cell.
- Photoelectrical cell series 2
after annealing, the tubing is cut to size.....
- Photoelectrical cell series 3
... and prepared for glueing on the quartz window.
- Photoelectrical cell series 4
The UV cure is anerobic, and cleans up well...
- Photoelectrical cell series 5
... leaving an optically clean seal between two dissimilar glasses.
Glass Reactors
- Osmometer "exploded"
a set-up for research with membranes.The assembled unit is shown here.
- 5L jacketed vessel
with a simple cover plate and bottom porting through the jacket.
- 2L glass reactor
- 500ml jacketed glass reactor
features zero deadspace bottom valve
- 8L Jacketed Reactor
custom vessel sizes are easily accommodated.
- 250ml jacketed reaction vessel
designed for automated peptide synthesis.
- 5L Stirred jacketed reactor
the jacket on this reactor will be cooling the reaction for work in medicinal chemistry. See a picture with the head removed here.
- no hold-up bottom valve
this valve drains thru the teflon stem
- 500ml Jacketed reaction vessels
features an extended bottom outside the jacket. This allows for both heating the bottom while cooling thru the jacket.
Used to study the remediation of metals in the environment
- Baffled and jacketed stirred reactor
designed for 1Liter working volumes. See an image of the body only here.
- Microbial fuel cell reactor
designed for work in the burgeoning field of electromicrobiology; shown with knuckle clamp being engaged, post membrane. An "exploded" view is here.
- 10Liter jacketed bioreactor
for work with algae, towards the development of biofuels
- Plasma chamber
Constructed around DN150 Schott flanges for research at Seattle University.
- 1L 4 neck flask
We purchase round bottom "blanks", which we modify per request.
- 22L reactor flask
with custom long necks to allow for expansion of contents while in process
- 50L 5 neck flask
Flask configurations are always a matter of preference
- 100L glass reaction flask
GMP glassware with a 200 O-ring grooved flange interface and custom head
- Small glass reactor
the bottom of this reactor is profiled to closely fit a magnetic stirrer.
- custom reaction cell
another iteration; same bottom profile as 944203.
- 250ml reactors
jacketed and unjacketed
- 500ml peptide reactors
featuring a no hold-up threaded bottom port
- All glass showerhead
for solid phase peptide synthesis; the "hard" plumbing allows for greater delivery pressures
- internal thread crossection
cross section shows seal of 1/4inch tube into a reactor head
- 5L Jacketed glass reaction vessel
features fully jacketed bottom porting
- 10L jacketed glass reactor
for use with custom teflon filter support
- 3L custom stirred glass reactor
for work with polymers
- 15L Glass reactor
featuring no hold-up porting and stainless steel rolling stand. A very flexible system and easy to customize
- 50L peptide synthesis reactor
with rack, stirring shaft, impellers, and stirmotor
- Reactor base assembly
to support removable filter for large scale peptide reactor
- 10L stirred glass reactor
this vessel replicates a stainless steel vessel; the client wants to SEE what's going on
- Stainless steel racks
We manufacture our own stainless steel racks to accommodate larger scale projects.
- 50ml and 100ml reaction vessels
utilizing 38-430 glass threads
- 40L glass bioreactor
You can have as many ports as you want!
- Jacketed bioreactor
with Schott flange head and foot access
- Jacketed biofuel reactors
glassware for biofuels research
- Glass Reactor for NASA
used to mimic the possible early Martian atmosphere.
- 3L jacketed glass vessel
designed with close fitting flat bottoms for magnetic stirring
- Small Glass Jacketed Bioreactor
with threaded teflon bushings
- small glass reaction vessel
to fit existing equipment
- 4L jacketed reactor
features a close fitting flat bottom for magnetic stirring and an 8 inch ID Schott flange opening
- 1Liter glass reaction vessels
with bottom port and without; made from Schott DN100 flanges
- Custom glass tissue bath
with oxygen stream-driven circulation.
- 5 liter mixing funnel
featuring unique inserted Teflon baffling system
- cGMP glassware
custom glassware for custom peptide production.
- Glass Moncada Cell
QT Moncada apparatus with #18 clamp
- Biometer flask
for determining carbon dioxide evolution by microorganisms
- 45 Liter glass algae tank
featuring 100-440 threaded top port and 1" dia. inlet and oulet. For research at University of California, San Francisco
- Jacketed glass chemostat reactor
designed to mimic the interaction of oil on seawater
- 2L Braun-style jacketed reactor
A jacketed reactor vessel, to fit Braun racks
- 26L Jacketed Reactor
with DN60 Schott flange drain adapter
- Small jacketed reactor
The DN60 flange is sealed very close to the jacket to maximize the heat-controlled portion of these low-volume reactors. They will interface will a teflon head. They were generated from a very minimal amount of information!
- Purification Vessel
This glassware is designed to use a Schott DN200 glass flange with our custom teflon base.
Suspended nanometer-scale particles are settled onto the membrane and "washed" in place.
Fermentation and Cell Culture
- Eukaryotic cell culture cartridge
small custom bioreactor separated by a fine porosity frit. Another image of this reactor is here.
- Permeation cell
coupled with a #18 pinch clamp.
- Glass bioreactor
large multiport glass fermentor - 40 liter volume, with eight GL45 side ports, and a 100-440 center thread.
- Moncada Cell
- custom cell culture glassware
client-specific configuration.
- 13ml custom Tissue bath
with an ID of 17mm and a depth of 60mm per customer request.
- custom jacketed 10L reactor
or more specifically, a Nuclease Digestion Vessel.
- 125ml microbe flask
custom cell culture glassware that captures metabolic gasses in side arm.
- 2L Braun-style jacketed reactor
A jacketed reactor vessel, to fit Braun racks
- 10Liter jacketed bioreactor
for work with algae, towards the development of biofuels
- Viscometer
Vessels to study shearing in cells while stirring.
- 1L glass bioreactor
to fit existing stand and hardware
- 1L and 3L vessels
- 3L Fermentation vessel a prototype complete with custom decal
- 15L glass vessel detail we have alot of experience fitting existing hardware
- 15L and 20L glass cell culture vessels with individually calibrated volume indications
- Custom glass jacketed beakers
These vessels, 20L and 3L volumes, are used in cGMP production
- Flow through sensor
for monitoring fermentation progress; a large oxygen sensor sits in the bottom.
- 6L jacketed fermentation vessel in the "spinner flask" form
- 3L Jacketed fermentation vessel in the "spinner flask" form
- 45L Carboy with 100-440 thread on center and two GL45 side ports
- 6L baffled erlenmeyer
with bottom port; for cell culture
- Custom Fernbach Flasks
with GL 45 threaded closure and bottom baffles
- 7L jacketed glass reactor with the flange to fit standard stainless steel headplates
- 20L flanged fermentation vessels precision tooled to close tolerances from 240 mm (9-1/2") tubing.
- 2L jacketed glass reactor
fitted to existing Braun hardware
- Cyanobacteria flask
- Turbulator!
a gizmo for creating turbulence during a stirred reaction. It's inserted and positioned through a standard 45/50 tapered joint.
- Jacketed fermentation vessel
- 6L spinner vessel with 100-440 thread on center and two GL45 side ports
- 40L glass bioreactor
You can have as many ports as you want!
- 40L glass carboy features indented bottom to address "dead space" during mixing
- 45L carboy, 2-port another porting configuration
- 2-L bioreactor
with permanent fired-on decal graduations
- 20L, 15L, & 7L Glass fermentation vessels featuring permanent graduations
- 10L stirred glass reactor
this vessel replicates a stainless steel vessel; the client wants to SEE what's going on
- Growth Flask
- the Bentley Bottle
named after Dr. Fiona Bentley, who developed the glassware for work at the Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology, UCB
Filtration Glassware
- 4L filtration funnel with a 150mm P3 frit; or 16-40 micron porosity
- custom inline filter
per client request.
- small "jacketed" frits
These 12mm medium frits are sealed into a tube, then cut to 6mm long.
- 47mm borosilicate base
precision tooled to fit stainless steel screens, which support 47mm membranes.
- custom Buchner funnel 150mm P4 frit sealed into a low profile funnel for ease of access
- fritted solvent suckers a plastic tube is swaged into the top of these filters which are then lowered into a reservoir
- Filter Flasks for vacuum assisted filtration
- 8L filter funnel
featuring a Schott oring flanged top and #18 internal threaded bottom port.
- Large jacketed filtration
5.5L filtration glassware featuring a fully jacketed 150mm P4 frit
- Detail of teflon base support
showing the seat for polypropylene filters.
- Custom glass membrane support
A client wanted to support a filter membrane below a reactor with a DN200 flange. We were able to tool a custom DN200 flange to fit the standard ceramic disc, which provides the support for the filter material. And it fits together with off-the-shelf components. Another photo is here.
- Fritted discs are stock items, and the basis of most of our filtration glassware
- custom frits are special orders from Germany
- custom jacketed glass filtration for cGMP production
- Fritted funnel with 14/20 vacuum take-off built in
- 90mm filtration glassware for work with 90mm membranes
- Filtering Gizmo
Vacuum driven filtering for use with 14/20 ground joints, and featuring a flush-mountered P4 frit.
- 90mm filtration glassware
These bases utilize a stainless steel screen support for the membrane.
- Various bubblers
Not exactly filtration, but could be! All are fitted with P3 frits and range from 60mm to 100mm diameters
- microfiltration glassware
glass fritted bases to support 25mm membranes
- 25mm filtration glassware
for small membrane work
- filtration glassware
a small fritted base to support 13mm membranes
- custom microfiltration glassware
custom "funnel" utilizing a 14/20 tapered joint; for 25mm membranes
- 12.5L Jacketed Buchner funnel
used for cGMP production filtering and featuring a 200mm P4 frit. Shown with a small 15ml filter funnel for scale.
- Microfiltration 25mm sintered glass support
- P2 Pressure fixture
a specially prepared thick P2 frit intended to utilize osmodic pressure.
- custom filtration glassware
Glassware for membrane work; you can get just what you need.
- Extraction thimble
for research in biofuels, featuring a 115mm diameter P0 frit.
- Extraction thimbles
same idea, smaller, and using a P1 frit
- in line filter
features a 100mm diameter Course frit and easy access.
- 5.5L fully jacketed filter
featuring a 150mm P4 frit completely jacketed for in-line filtration
- Jacketed filtration for in-line filtration. 150mm P3 jacketed frit
- 6L jacketed filtration glassware an in-line filter for CGMP production
- 47mm glass fritted base with a built in vacuum take-off
- 47mm membrane fritted glass support features a 24/40 glass joint vacuum take-off
- customized 20L filter bottle
these stock bottles are designed for vacuum-driven filtration. This one has been modified.
- Fractionator with fritted base for use with standard 47mm membranes
- Custom glass 90mm filter base with a P2 frit; porosity of 40-100microns
- custom glass funnel 130mm OD w 1/4" stem, per an internet request
- Glass filter funnels also called Buchner funnels
- Glass filter funnels and an adapter.
- Glass / stainless support for 47mm membrane and a 40/35 tapered joint for vacuum filtration
- 47mm membrane glassware with built-in 40/35 tapered joint vacuum take-off
- Buchner funnel custom configuration
- custom frits
- Re-cored frits
in large quantities. From a larger disc....
- custom small membrane filtration glassware
customer request for glassware with smaller volumes
- 47mm Custom filtration
tooled to fit stainless screen supports for 47mm membrane filtration.
- Fritted adapter for work with perfusion apparatus
- fully jacketed custom filtration
3.8liter in-line filtration for cGMP production
Evaporation Glassware
- Cold finger condenser for your standard rotary evaporator
- Glass cold finger condenser exploded
- Cold finger condenser body only
- Condenser valves Stopcock plug and valve for continuous feed
- Rotovap flange adapter
a 50mm flanged adapter to fit a B̈üchi-style rotary evaporator
- Cold finger condenser the "finger" only
- Rotovap Condenser in the cooled coil form, with protective plastic coating
- Minirotovap trap
request from client for a smaller version of the rotary evaporator bump trap; made with 24/40 tapered joints with "square" rims to hold clip.
- custom rotovap glassware
of course, we make the "routine" glass parts for rotary evaporators as well.
- Modified recovery flask are free standing
- Receiver flasks for rotoevaporation
2L and 3L volumes shown with plastic coating; for use with rotary evaporation equipment.
We make all standard sizes.
- Rotary evaporator bump trap 250ml glass trap for rotoary evaporation
- Flying saucer rototrap allows the use of larger flasks in your rotovap
- Custom rototrap with a 45/50male joint , and in the "flying saucer" form to minimize length
- fritted bump traps
with built-in XC fritted foam stop
- cold finger for wiped film evaporator this one fits a 100mm ID Pope still body
- Glass sublimator vessel
showing a "cold finger" on a Schott DN100 flange in front
- Cold finger detail shot of the connections.
- Pope-style wiped film evaporator
- 5L custom glass trap
definitely custom! A receiver for a large wiped film evaporator.
- Pope-style WFE body a detail of the top flange and connections
- Modified WFE
wiped film evaporator body modified for improved performance
- Foam stops have extra coarse fritted filters to stop foam and particulates from fouling your system
- custom lyophilization glassware
fitted to existing"hard"ware, and featuring fritted tubes to prevent contamination
- 22L flanged evaporation flask
amberized for large scale rotary evaporation of light sensitive compounds;
- Rotovap cleaner cleans your rotovap by blasting solvent through by vacuum power
- Plastic coating
can save your eyes, but even a good glassblower can't repair everything.
- Plastic coating
after sadness, without disaster. We generally coat glassware used in vacuum evaporation.
- Rotovap cleaner
cleans your rotovap by blasting solvent through by vacuum power
- Receivers for your rotovap; one and two liter sizes, with plastic safety coating
- Recovery Flasks in various sizes and forms
- Eason flask allows evaporation to a small retrievable volume
- Custom evaporation flask
with large opening, for easy access.
- Various lyo adapters and custom glassware for lyophilization
- Lyo adapters are easily configured to do what you need 'em to do.
- Fritted powder stop with a notched frit to allow vacuum if the frit clogs with ice
- Small recovery flasks
- Vial adapter
adapts your rotovap directly to threaded vials. See our chart of common vial sizes.
- Vial sizes
A chart of common vial sizes and thread designations.
- More vial adapters
featuring 29/32 Female tapered joints. These were shipped to Japan! See our chart of common vial sizes.
- Machajewski vial adapter allows evaporation of vials directly connected to the rotovap
- 2L freeze dry vessel - you can have custom vessels made to your desires
- custom evaporation glassware
built around existing rubber gasket; allows for open and easy access to contents.
- Repaired condenser
We repair a lot of this glassware; you can think of it as hightech recycling.
Manifolds and Vacuum
- Glass manifold
to multiplex Tygon tubing.
- Triple manifold detail
Part of a custom Schlenk line prepared for a research team. An image of the full manifold is here, and the traps are here.
- 5 place double glass manifold
5 port compact design for vacuum / inert line. The 0-12mm bore valves are shown in close-up here.
- Simple glass manifold
eight-places with hose barbs all around.
- oil diffusion pump
featuring a bypass mode to isolate the pump from the system.
- 5 place glass double manifold
in a custom configuration; you can have whatever you like!
- Vacuum transfer apparatus
in two different flavors.
- Glass neon manifold for processing and filling neon tubes and art
- 5 place glass manifold features a unique design to accommodate work inside a hood
- 5-place custom glass manifold
Another unique configuration.
- Sampling manifold with bushing interfaces of teflon and black nylon
- Five-place double manifold
shown with #15 o-ring end fittings and a valve for purging gasses.
- 3 place glass manifold
w #15 o-ring connections
- Custom Schlenk line
and a happy customer.
- Custom vacuum manifold shown with highly efficient trap
- 75ml Schlenk vessel
configured to allow insertion of stainless steel needle.
- Custom Vacuum Reservoir
designed to speed up a process. The decaled line shows when 500ml have been reached.
- Small glass manifold featuring glass luer joint interface
- Grothaus Manifold Paul Grothaus suggested this manifold for blanketing small vessels with nitrogen. Spaghetti tubing with needles on each end are inserted into the septa. One needle can be pulled out to insert into a septum vial; when done, return it.
- 4 place double manifold constructed for a tight space!
- 5 place glass single manifold
with outboard 1/4-28 glass threads
- Single manifold with vents Each port of the manifold can be vented individually via the T-bore stopcock
- Manifold with double oblique stopcocks
with constant pressure retention of glass stopcock plugs.
- Vacuum distillation unit
a novel design, intended to be closed off and moved while samples are still under vacuum
- Double manifold with crossover stopcock for evacuating and purging the inert gas line, and gauge connection
- Single manifold
- Custom bell jars
featuring a port that accepts a standard septum, for research towards a new generation of batteries.
- Manifold, five place, for vacuum and inert gas
using spring-loaded valves and #15 o-ring connectors.
- Vapor deposition Chamber
a tabletop chemical vapor deposition chamber for 2" wafers.
- Construction of large manifold 1
One of the main attributes of scientific glassblowing is the ability to heat glass locally. Shown here are components held and assembled with the help of a large lathe.
- Construction of large manifold 2
Jay completes the job with the addition of the traps
- Construction of large manifold 3
Jay holds partial assembly. This manifold is 7' in length!
- 6 place single manifold
- Manifold configurations are numerous and flexible
- Angled Manifold Waste solvent from peptide synthesis vessels attached to each joint runs out to a solvent reservoir.
- 5 place double manifold
- Simple glass manifold
- Custom manifold any configuration is possible
- 18 inch N2 Condenser Trap with 71/60 joint for maximum vapor path
- Double trap
The trap vessels (not shown) can be isolated and emptied without breaking vacuum on the rest of the system.
- Borosilicate Diffusion Pump
ordered up by a local neon shop for processing neon signs.
- Custom trap
- Glass Schlenk vessels for conducting air-free reactions
- Diffusion pump All glass diffusion pump for use with silicone oil.
- Diffusion pump for use with silicone oil.
- Liquid N2 trap
- Double Manifold, 10 places with offset stopcocks for compactness
- Vacuum traps
featuring large o-ring joints for easy access/emptying
- Cold Trap
- High Efficiency Trap
with O-ring joints and clamp
- Vacuum trap
we supplied spare trap bodies for back-up
- Schlenk line traps
- custom Schlenk bottles
with 14/20 tapered joints angled to allow access with stainless steel needle
Chromatography Glass
- Glass chromatography columns with various aspect ratios
- large scale chromatography columns
and custom rack. The rack is designed to roll in and out of a hood. The payload is distinguished with fluoresces as the contents are gravity fed through these columns.
- Large columns
40L capacity columns mounted in a custom rack. Used to separate fluorescently tagged molecules.
- Glass chromatography columns
come in sizes from tiny (10 ml) to humongous (20L or more).
- Glass chromatography columns
come in any configuration you desire; for these the desire was socket joints.
- Large fritted glass columns
gravity feed columns with large diameter P2 frits
- Glass chromatography columns a chemist's request for columns with various bore diameters
- Chromatography column small diameter bore with 24/40 taper joint, reservoir, and teflon stopcock
- Glass chromatography column with a 35/20 socket, reservoir, 50mm ID bore, and teflon stopcock
- Flow control for pressurization/drive of column contents
- Really big column
with a 200 mm diameter, and custom rack, and Mary
- Jacketed column with flanges at both ends
- Flow control adapters with Rodaviss and standard joints
- Flow control with Rodaviss joint in the 90 degree configuration, for 24/40 joint with crewthread top
- 90 deg flow control valve is stronger than the common form of flow control valve
- 40L glass column
A 150P2 frit is sealed into large diameter tubing; designed for synthetic DNA purification using fluorescent dyes,
Peptide Synthesis Glassware
- Peptide synthesis vessel in a custom configuration featuring low hold-up and an extended 5/12 tapered joint
- Small peptide reactors
with small glass "luer" joints, to interface with standardized syringe hardware
- 15L Glass reactor
featuring no hold-up porting and stainless steel rolling stand. A very flexible system and easy to customize
- 500ml jacketed glass reactor
features zero deadspace bottom valve
- Peptide synthesis glassware
with various volumes, both jacketed and unjacketed.
- All glass showerhead
for solid phase peptide synthesis; the "hard" plumbing allows for greater delivery pressures
- Glass reaction vessels for solid phase peptide synthesis, featuring low hold-up below frit
- 25 ml peptide synthesis vessel with robust GL45 screw tops and T-bore stopcock for gaslift mixing and drainage
- 250ml reactors
jacketed and unjacketed
- 500ml peptide reactors
featuring a no hold-up threaded bottom port
- 5L Jacketed glass reaction vessel
features fully jacketed bottom porting
- Peptide synthesis vessels an order from overseas
- jacketed peptide reactor
25 mL peptide synthesis vessel with a water jacket
- Peptide synthesis glassware
10 mL peptide synthesis vessels with and without a jacket. The top port is the very robust GL45 thread
- 25ml glass reactor shown with teflon lined, silcon membranes and cap for porting
- 40ml fritted peptide reaction vessel
- Glass peptide reaction vessel
for solid phase peptide synthesis
- 10L jacketed glass reactor
for use with custom teflon filter support
- teflon filter support for removable filter for large scale peptide reaction vessel
- Stir shafts featuring precision ground shafts
- stir shaft an Archimedes screw on a 10mm ground glass shaft
- custom peptide synthesis vessel
for solid phase sythesis
- Custom synthesis glassware detail
showing bottom porting, and funny fritted holddown.
- Amino acid reservoir with conical bottom to allow complete usage
- Quan cleavage tube custom made to fit Rainin machine
- glassware for peptide synthesis
oem glassware for production of peptides in a large scale peptide synthesis system
- 3.5L glass metering vessel oem glassware for production of peptides
- Custom glass reactor with Archimedes' screw impeller
- Shower head, small with a DN100 flange and shower head to wash stirrer shaft and sides of peptide synthesis vessel
- Shower head with a DN150 flange and Teflon shower head to wash stirrer shaft and sides of peptide synthesis vessel
- Reactor shower head with a DN200 flange and shower head to wash stirrer shaft and sides of peptide synthesis vessel
- Small reaction vessels for small molecule and peptide synthesis
- 20ml short glass reaction vessel with GL theaded ends
- Peptide synthesis vessels
with beefy GL45 threads and cap and Tee-bore stopcocks for gas lift mixing.
See this glassware in action in a JOVE video about Synthesis of Peptoid Polymers. - Reaction vessel with luer joint both for feed and drain
- 30L metering vessel for a large scale peptide synthesis system
- small glass reaction vessel
to fit existing equipment
- Low profile teflon base
for a custom 50 liter peptide reaction vessel for large scale synthesis
- Reactor base assembly
to support removable filter for large scale peptide reactor
- Peptide reactors for small scale peptide and small molecule synthesis
- Peptide vessels are routinely and easily adapted to your needs
- Peptide synthesis vessels unique glass reaction vessels ranging from 100ml to 1L
- OEM glassware
Jacketed reactors for peptide synthesis machines
Environmental Testing Glassware
- Glassware for testing
for our own Bay Area Air Quality Management district.
- Greenburg-Smith impinger
glassware for environmental testing
- Greenburg-Smith impinger
modified to accommodate a thermocouple; for accurate temperature readings
- Pyrex "nozzle"
for sampling air columns
- Nozzles for air sampling
can be fabricated from borosilicate glass, or Quartz glass for higher temperatures.
- Filter holder
- Small glass denuder
provides a lot of surface area for an ozone monitor
- Glass honeycomb denuders
made as a component in an air sampling device, developed for Harvard.
- 2 inch all glass denuder
These denuders provide a clean, large surface area for air sampling devices; a decaled number helps track the various samples.
- Odor Panel Permeation Tube
with honeycomb divider
- Odor Panel Permeation Tube
showing glass bead packing restrained by honeycomb
- Gas sample bottle
for sampling gases from the volcanoes of Hawai'i.
- Glass adapters
Striaght and angled #11 internal thread to 28/12S with nylon bushings; for environmental testing.
- Custom impinger
with a line decaled at 100ml of volume
- 1L Vapor generator
for an environmental testing arrangement; top and side porting thru 1/4" teflon tubing.
- 5L vapor generator
second generation bubbler to generate water vapor; for comparative testing of personal monitoring devices.
Wine Analysis Glassware
- Volatile Acid Still
- the famous self-evacuating still
- Volatile acid still to test for volatile acids in wine making
- Volatile Acid Still with stand
ready to go.
- Heating element detail improved robust design. Coils available in 110v and 220v
- Cord set features the robust GL45 threaded connection.Heating coils available in both 110v and 220v
- Primitive VA Still as it was in the Dark Ages
- Cash still
This is a "real" Cash Still, before the self evacuating aspirators were added. Note the simpler design.
- SO2 Apparatus glass only
- SO2 Apparatus, exploded
exploded view
- SO2 Apparatus on stand
- wine thief in action
- 200ml sweep thief
Our most popular thief; tooled on 30x2.8mm Schott tubing and 500mm in length
- Wine thief with a sweep bend for rack access to barrels
- 300ml custom bent thief
for larger capacity sampling
- Glass Whiskey thief
in the "bent" style. It is easy to accommodate variations in length.
- Wine thieves with a sweep bend allows access to bungs in racked barrels. Handles can be mounted on either side of bend.
- Whiskey Thief
we thought a whiskey thief would look more like a cowboy...
- Glass wine thieves with the handle on the outside
- New deluxe handle offering
We now offer a deluxe handle; more robust and ergonomic than rod.
Repairs
- Repair 450mm head
replacing a port. And always a challenge!
- Repaired by
Adams & Chittenden
- modification
to a section of 9inch industrial glass pipe
- rush repair of large QVF heat exchanger
This condenser was successfully put back together again, though we were reluctant to make any promises!
- Modifying a large 200L QVF reactor
....requires large equipment.
- Repair sequence 1
- the broken jacketed fermentation vessel
- Repair sequence 2
- scribe cut off the ugly part
- Repair sequence 3
- seal on new jacket tubing
- Repair sequence 4
- cut jacket tubing to length
- Repair sequence 5
- seal on a flat bottom and hose barb. It's now as good as new.
- Repaired condenser
We repair a lot of this glassware; you can think of it as hightech recycling.
- Heat exchanger
with broken QVF PS25 side connection. It is shown repaired here.
- Repair of a broken hose barb.
- Large jacketed reactor requires working inside a large oven at annealing temperatures
- Plastic coating
can save your eyes, but even a good glassblower can't repair everything.
- Repair of condenser 1 Condenser with a broken 24/40 male joint, mounted in lathe and heated.
- Repair of condenser 2 The broken joint is removed and new one sealed on.
- Repair of condenser 3 Good as new! the beveled drip-tip will be cut, then fire-polished.
- Modification 1 the customer wants a different flange on their reaction vessel.
- Modification 2 After cutting off the old flange, the vessel is slowly heated in lathe
- Modification 3 After the seal is effected, the heat is slowly reduced. The vessel will be complete after annealing.
- Gunk on a falling film still ready to burn out
A thousand degrees Fahrenheit pretty much will take care of all organics.
- Burned out
- after an annealing cycle, all organics are toast;
- After an ultrasonic rinse
- clean as new!
Large Scale Glassware
- Modifying 200L QVF reactor
Big!
- Custom stainless steel rack
for a large proprietary array.
- 40L glass carboy distributor with a 16 inch flat disc bottom for magnetic stirring of contents
- 55L Modified Carboy
A standard 45L volume carboy blank was not quite enough for a client who had a height restriction as well. We spliced together two carboys for additional volume within the same height range as the blank. A DN100 flange provides sealing and porting opportunities.
- 100L glass reaction flask
GMP glassware with a 200 O-ring grooved flange interface and custom head
- 50L peptide synthesis reactor
with rack, stirring shaft, impellers, and stirmotor
- glassware for peptide synthesis
oem glassware for production of peptides in a large scale peptide synthesis system
- 20L metering vessel
glassware for peptide synthesis production; featuring a replaceable side arm for monitoring volume
- 40L glass column
A 150P2 frit is sealed into large diameter tubing; designed for synthetic DNA purification using fluorescent dyes,
- Large columns
40L capacity columns mounted in a custom rack. Used to separate fluorescently tagged molecules.
- Modified carboy a "double" carboy, for a capacity of ~75 liters. Shown with a 20L media bottle for scale
- 22L round bottom flasks with tall side arms to allow for use of the complete volume of the flask
- 45 Liter glass algae tank
featuring 100-440 threaded top port and 1" dia. inlet and oulet. For research at University of California, San Francisco
- 100L dome for the Exploratorium
- polishing the edge of a half sphere, cut from a 100L flask
- Display Domes Cut from 100L flasks and Fire-polished; for an exhibit at the San Francisco Exploratorium
- 72Liter lens
A display for the Don Harrington Discovery Center
- 18" bell jar in large lathe
refurbishing an 18" bell jar
- Custom glass jacketed beakers
These vessels, 20L and 3L volumes, are used in cGMP production
- Very large jacket beaker
The inside of this vessel is 260mm across and 250mm high. The jacket is produced from tubing 325 x 9mm, the largest borosilicate we can get.
- Large jacketed filtration
5.5L filtration glassware featuring a fully jacketed 150mm P4 frit
- 50L 5 neck flask
Flask configurations are always a matter of preference
- large borosilicate tubing
240x9mm Schott tubing being tooled. Sometimes our work is hypnotizing.
- cGMP glassware
custom glassware for custom peptide production.
- 16L jacketed crystallizing vessel showing DN150 Schott flange and head with clamp
- Really large beaker!
68 liters! This was produced for electrochemical research.
- Twenty liter mixing vessel
one never has a container big enough
- 50L separation unit
- Stainless steel racks
We manufacture our own stainless steel racks to accommodate larger scale projects.
- 10L jacketed glass degasser for pulling gases from a polymer
- Slotted flow ring for large glass degasser
- Really big column
with a 200 mm diameter, and custom rack, and Mary
- 30L vessel with DN100 Schott flange
- 26L Jacketed Reactor
with DN60 Schott flange drain adapter
- 26L Jacketed Reactor detail showing the silicone rubber jacket seal
- modification
to a section of 9inch industrial glass pipe
Art
- Bowl
- Egg Glass and stand From a set; a design project
- 72Liter lens
A display for the Don Harrington Discovery Center
- Neon Condensers! Filled and processed by Bill Concannon
- "a" wine glass
- Snake tube! very cool display, almost 5 feet tall. We'll get a video going....
- Dewar tea set a designers idea realized
- Swizzle stick for high-end martini apparatus
- Classic Klein bottle
Need four dimensions? No Problem! Need an explanation? There is a great video here.
- Klein bottle Karaf
at the instigation of Dr. Cliff Stoll, the klein bottle capitalist
- Volatile Acid Still Body WE think it's Art!
- Large Bowl with Gardenias! Excellent use for an otherwise useless top half of a 22L flask
- Chandelier we provided the glass balls w hooks for the restoration
- Gourd flask
- Glass Prototype for a plasma sculpture project
- Glass lamp prototype required a profile mold for multiplies
- Wine glasses
- Wine glasses making (several) Statements! Designed by a local artist Mary White
- Various Klein bottles See Cliff Stoll's Klein bottle website
- Amber glass colored borosilicate from China... maybe not Art, but beautiful!
- The Last Drop an award presented to Will Smith
- Slivo flask
The classic slivovica bottle is a short cylinder on edge.
- reflections
glass can be hard to photograph.
- Large bottle
we needed the "middle" of a 12 gal carboy, but the two ends look great together!
- custom light shade
Sandblasted for a diffuse light.
- large borosilicate tubing
240x9mm Schott tubing being tooled. Sometimes our work is hypnotizing.
- More wine glasses
- we are in California, so we need wine glasses.
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