Laboratory Glassware
- Arsenic test apparatus
- 5L jacketed reactor
in another view. The intermediate section is to accommodate the stirring blade and additional porting. Bottom valve seals flush with the bottom of the vessel to avoid dead space.
- Steam distillation units
- Powder addition funnel
utilizing a teflon auger to drive powder into the mix.
- Solvent trap
with a glass stopcock; to be used with vacuum
- Ammonia Condenser
- Jacketed Erlenmeyer flasks used as receivers with a cyclone
- 5L water trap per customer request
- 5L jacketed beaker
designed for a testing protocol.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 TLC jar. Features 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 Europe 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
- 10 ml Addition Funnel
- Glass membrane weight you gotta make peace when you can!
- Dean Stark trap with 14/20 joints
- Perfusion glassware
- Double Reflux Condenser
- Modified Savant Trap with o-ring joint
- 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
- Glass Bubblers /air locks one with a 24/40 jt, the other with 14/20 joint
- 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.
- NMR tube cleaner with unbreakable SS solvent tube
- NMR tube cleaner exploded
- 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
- All glass honeycomb
developed to provide large, clean surface area, for Harvard. Useful as packing support as well.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Thick glass windows
Firepolishing the edges of windows for strength. Installed in plasma chambers.
- Packaging
a glass column for packaging radioisotopes. For use in medicinal chemistry.
Custom Glassware
- Custom glass test chamber for research into PVC cracking over long term use in appliances.
- Glass perfusion dish
for continuous flow over standard lab slides
- Reservoir bottles
with conical bottom and side porting to suck the last drops, using the GL45 thread and an Ace thread port
- 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 cylinder w ports...
lots of 'em!
- 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
- 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
- 10L jacketed media bottle
to deliver thermally buffered solutions
- Custom glass reservoir
low profile and tapered bottom for complete removal of contents
- 1L glass waste receiver
featuring KF40 glass to metal flange interface and plastic coating for safety.
- Small jacketed bottle
shown with a teflon membrane cap
- 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. To see the chamber in action, go here, scroll down to cloud chamber, and click the camera icon at right
- 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
- 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
- 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 18 mm tubing.
- Glass sublimator vessel
showing a "cold finger" on a Schott DN100 flange in front
- Microtubes
for centrifugal protein crystallization for X-ray diffraction crystallography
- 5L custom glass trap
definitely custom! A receiver for a large wiped film evaporator.
- 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
- 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
- Cyclone with custom profiled inlet and stainless steel flanges
- 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 tissue bath Small jacketed vessel with fritted inlet for bubbling oxygen
- 40ml tissue bath a larger version of the 10ml bath
Electrochemistry glassware
- Custom glass echem cell
per customer design; it uses weirs to separate electrolytes
- Small glass RDE chamber completed
- Custom glass corrosion cell Jacketed electrochemical cell per drawing and discussion.
- Custom corrosion cell Another view. This cell was designed around an existing Luggin capillary
- custom electro-optical cell
featuring two quarts windows oriented at 90degrees
- Microbial fuel cell 1
features NW 40 flat flange interface to support a nafion membrane. The nafion is cut and positioned on the flat...
- Microbial fuel cell with teflon sealing gasket
which is easily centered on the flange.
- Microbial fuel cell assembled
and held together with a knuckle clamp.
- Glass optical echem cell
with quartz window glued in place.
- Optical electrochemical cell
another view of the quartz window
- NW 50 flanges with knuckle clamp and o-ring seal
- Simple cell for plate electrode sits on a foil plate
- simple electrochemical 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
- Custom echem cell another view.
- 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.
- Jacketed & Unjacketed echem cells
for rotating electrode
- Un-jacketed echem cell
for use with rotating disk electrode
- Jacketed electrochemical cell
for use with a rotating electrode and Luggin capillary
- Jacketed cell with luggin capillary
- these were sent to Germany
- glass electrodeposition cell with a "blank" teflon cap
- Jacketed glass cell yet another elaboration; shown with insertable counter electrode and reference electrode
- 500mL Jacketed cell
a second iteration; two top ports were unnecessary. See 942959.
- 500mL jacketed cell
Shown with the removable counter electrode and reference electrode
- 500mL jacketed echem cell
A check for leaks in the jacket....
- Reference electrode compartment
Featuring a fine porosity glass frit and a 1mm tip apperture. The tip is centered relative to the 24/40 top center joint upon insertion into the cell.
- 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
- Custom glass cell
another iteration and another happy e-chemist doing research at the University of Connecticut
- Small echem cell simple design per customer
- Photoelectrochemical cell with a quartz window in the side for UV transparency. The customer is happy.
- optical, electrochemical cell with quartz window
- optical, electrochemical cell another view that shows the luggin capillary
- Multiple OEM cells for automated chemistry
- 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
- 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
- another 2 compartment cell
cells are easily modified to fit your work.
- 3 chamber cell
another variation on this theme
- 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
- Jacketed glass cell
for electrochemistry using a rotating electrode
- Jacketed electrochemical cell another view, with the luggin capillary removed
- 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
- Jacketed echem cell, complete
with all the bells and whistles
- Electrochem cell for automated electochemistry
- 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
- 500ml jacketed glass reactor
features zero deadspace bottom valve
- 5L Stirred jacketed reactor
the jacket on this reactor will be cooling the reaction for work in medicinal chemistry.
- 5L jacketed reactor
in another view. The intermediate section is to accommodate the stirring blade and additional porting. Bottom valve seals flush with the bottom of the vessel to avoid dead space.
- 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
- Microbial fuel cell reactor
designed for work in the burgeoning field of electromicrobiology; shown with knuckle clamp being engaged, post membrane.
- Microbial fuel cell reactor
a closer look at the NW50 flange teflon/o-ring assemble; for membrane support.
- 10Liter jacketed bioreactor
for work with algae, towards the development of biofuels
- 22L reactor flask
with custom long necks to allow for expansion of contents while in process
- 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
- 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
- 50L 5 neck flask
Flask configurations are always a matter of preference
- 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
Fermentation and Cell Culture
- 2L Braun-style jacketed reactor
A jacketed reactor vessel, to fit Braun racks
- Glass bioreactor
large multiport glass fermentor - 40 liter volume, with eight GL45 side ports, and a 100-440 center thread.
- 10Liter jacketed bioreactor
for work with algae, towards the development of biofuels
- 3L Jacketed fermentation vessel in the "spinner flask" form
- 1L glass bioreactor
to fit existing stand and hardware
- 1L and 3L vessels
- 2L jacketed glass reactor
fitted to existing Braun hardware
- 3L Fermentation vessel a prototype complete with custom decal
- 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
- 15L and 20L glass cell culture vessels with individually calibrated volume indications
- 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
- Growth Flask
- 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.
- 15L glass vessel detail we have alot of experience fitting existing hardware
- 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
Filtration Glassware
- Large jacketed filtration
5.5L filtration glassware featuring a fully jacketed 150mm P4 frit
- 4L filtration funnel with a 150mm P3 frit; or 16-40 micron porosity
- fritted solvent suckers a plastic tube is swaged into the top of these filters which are then lowered into a reservoir
- 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
- custom Buchner funnel 150mm P4 frit sealed into a low profile funnel for ease of access
- Filter Flasks for vacuum assisted filtration
- 12L jacketed Buchner funnel with 200 mm frit and a 15ml funnel for scale
- microfiltration glassware
glass fritted bases to support 25mm membranes
- custom microfiltration glassware
custom "funnel" utilizing a 14/20 tapered joint; for 25mm membranes
- 90mm filtration glassware for work with 90mm membranes
- in line filter
features a 100mm diameter Course frit and easy access
- In-line filtration
another view. Glassware for GMP production
- 8L filter funnel featuring a Schott oring flanged top and #11 internal threaded bottom port
- fully jacketed custom filtration
3.8liter in-line filtration for cGMP production
- 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 membrane glassware with built-in 40/35 tapered joint vacuum take-off
- 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.
- 20L filtering bottle
a closer look; a #11 internal glass thread side port has been added.
- 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
- Buchner funnel custom configuration
- custom frits
- Re-cored frits in large quantities
- Cored frits cut from larger disc
- 25mm filtration glassware for small membrane work
- 28mm fritted base with fritted membrane support
- filtration glassware
a small fritted base to support 13mm membranes
- custom small membrane filtration glassware
customer request for glassware with smaller volumes
- custom filtration glassware
Glassware for membrane work; you can get just what you need.
- Microfiltration 25mm sintered glass support
- 47mm membrane support glassware with fritted base. We produce many sizes of this kind of glassware.
- glassware for 47mm membrane filtration utilising a stainless steel screen support
- Fritted adapter for work with perfusion apparatus
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
- 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
- More vial adapters featuring 29/32 Female tapered joints. These were shipped to Japan
- 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
- 5 place glass manifold another custom configuration
- 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
- 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 glass manifold
simple 5 place manifold to be used with Tygon tubing.
- 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.
- 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 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
- 5 place double manifold with constant pressure retention of glass stopcock plugs
- Double manifold with crossover stopcock for evacuating and purging the inert gas line, and gauge connection
- Single manifold
- Construction of large manifold 1
Components are assembled with the help of a large lathe
- Construction of large manifold 3
Jay holds partial assembly. This manifold is 7' in length!
- Construction of large manifold 2
Jay completes the job with the addition of the traps
- 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.
- 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
- 5 place double manifold
using spring-loaded valves and #15 o-ring connectors.
- 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
- 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
- 25ml glass reactor shown with teflon lined, silcon membranes and cap for porting
- 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
- Peptide synthesis vessels an order from overseas
- 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
- Shower head, small with a DN100 flange and shower head to wash stirrer shaft and sides of peptide synthesis vessel
- Custom glass reactor with Archimedes' screw impeller
- 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
- Peptide synthesis vessels unique glass reaction vessels ranging from 100ml to 1L
- 30L metering vessel for a large scale peptide synthesis system
- small glass reaction vessel
to fit existing equipment
- 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
- Low profile teflon base
for a custom 50 liter peptide reaction vessel for large scale synthesis
- Reaction vessel with luer joint both for feed and drain
Environmental 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.
- All glass honeycomb
developed to provide large, clean surface area, for Harvard. Useful as packing support as well.
- 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.
- 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 complete ready to go, with available stand and clamps
- 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
- SO2 Apparatus glass only
- SO2 Apparatus exploded view
- SO2 Apparatus with stand
- 200ml wine thief
per customer request
- Wine thief with a sweep bend for rack access to barrels
- Wine thieves with a sweep bend allows access to bungs in racked barrels. Handles can be mounted on either side of bend.
- Glass Whiskey thief
in the "bent" style. It is easy to accommodate variations in length.
- Wine thief with a bend to allow access to racked wine barrels
- Straight glass wine thief available in different lengths and diameters
- Glass wine thieves with the handle on the outside
- glass wine thieves with a sweep bend and handle per customer request
- large glass wine thief
designed to hold ~200ml per customer request
Repairs
- 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.
- Heat exchanger
with broken QVF PS25 side connection.
- Repaired heat exchanger
- Repair of a broken hose barb.
- rush repair of large QVC heat exchanger
This condenser was successfully put back together again, though we were reluctant to make any promises!
- Repaired by
Adams & Chittenden
- Repaired condenser
We repair a lot of this glassware; you can think of it as hightech recycling.
- 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
- Really big column
with a 200 mm diameter, and custom rack, and Mary
- Large jacketed filtration
5.5L filtration glassware featuring a fully jacketed 150mm P4 frit
- 40L glass carboy distributor with a 16 inch flat disc bottom for magnetic stirring of contents
- 16L jacketed crystallizing vessel showing DN150 Schott flange and head with clamp
- 100L glass reaction flask
GMP glassware with a 200 O-ring grooved flange interface and custom head
- Large columns
40L capacity columns mounted in a custom rack. Used to separate fluorescently tagged molecules.
- 20L metering vessel
glassware for peptide synthesis production; featuring a replaceable side arm for monitoring volume
- glassware for peptide synthesis
oem glassware for production of peptides in a large scale peptide synthesis system
- 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
- 26L Jacketed Reactor with DN60 Schott flange drain adapter
- 26L Jacketed Reactor detail showing the silicone rubber jacket seal
- 40L glass column
A 150P2 frit is sealed into large diameter tubing; designed for synthetic DNA purification using fluorescent dyes,
- 30L vessel with DN100 Schott flange
- 50L peptide synthesis reactor
with rack, stirring shaft, impellers, and stirmotor
- 50L separation unit
- 50L 5 neck flask
Flask configurations are always a matter of preference
- Ten liter mixing vessel Beginning to scale up...
- Twenty liter mixing vessel one never has a container big enough
- Custom glass jacketed beakers
These vessels, 20L and 3L volumes, are used in cGMP production
- Really large beaker! 68 liters! This was produced for electrochemical research.
- 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
- 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
- Display Domes Cut from 100L flasks and Fire-polished; for an exhibit at the San Francisco Exploratorium
- 18" bell jar in large lathe
refurbishing an 18" bell jar
Art
- Egg Glass and stand From a set; a design project
- Neon Condensers! Filled and processed by Bill Concannon
- 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!
- 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!
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