INDEX of Images

Custom Glassware Gallery

Cyclone with custom profiled inlet and stainless steel flanges

4L jacketed beaker features a close fitting flat bottom for magnetic stirring and an 8 inch ID Schott flange opening

Jacketed Flow tube - but really, it's The Barracuda! Another satisfied customer.

Knudsen cell built to mimic high-altitude atmospheric conditions

10L jacketed media bottle to deliver thermally buffered solutions

Voelker tissue bath with oxygen stream-driven circulation

Glass aerosol dilution venturi to inject a standard concentration of an aerosol into a stream of air

Amberized 150 ml pear vessels as reservoirs for photosensitive compounds

Glass medical mold this glass mold produces polymer parts for a ventricular assist device

Odor Panel Permeation Tube with honeycomb divider

Odor Panel Permeation Tube showing glass bead packing restrained by honeycomb

1L jacketed vessel with plastic protective coating

3L trap for GMP use

4L jacketed reactor with reaction vessel flange top and drain valve

Degassing column for degassing polymers; with honeycomb support for packing glass beads

Custom filter support for removable filter for large scale peptide reaction vessel

Jacketed columns glassware for biofuels research

4L jacketed glass vessel designed with close fitting flat bottoms for magnetic stirring

Mini crystalizer with integral stir bearing, using a DN60 Schott flange

Quartz boat with three compartments, made from 18 mm tubing.

Glass Reactor for NASA used to mimic the possible early Martian atmosphere.

Large condenser for the distillation of natural essences

3L glass reservoir low profile per client request

6 inch flanged vessel

22L reactor flask with custom long necks to allow for expansion of contents while in process

custom glass cyclone shown with inlet o-ring and clamp, and exhaust porting connection thru teflon lined cap

Milled slide with cover plate

Small weighing chamber

Weighing chamber

Vapor generating bubbler to prooduce a saturated gas stream

Static mixer jacketed for thermally controlled mixing

Cyclone for sorting particles from a spray drier

Custom glass cyclone featuring a rectangular inlet tooled on an extended inlet port

Glass Tonometer

Waste tank, with stainless steel flange plastic coated for protection of the surface of the glass, and containment in case of disaster

Cyclone for particle separation from a Büchi spray drier

Jacketed bioreactor with Schott flange head and foot access

Custom glass reservoir low profile and tapered bottom for complete removal of contents

Prototype glass reservoir features 1/4"-28 glass thread for interfacing with standard connections

Large soxhlet apparatus features 8" ID opening and access. Shown with condenser

Microtubes for protein crystallization for X-ray diffraction crystallography

Biofilm reactor the realization of a web request for a "glass dohickey"

Sight glass featuring heavy-walled tubing and custom scale

Essential oil glassware a customer's design

Jacketed glass cyclone featuring custom rectangular inlet...not trivial!

Pyrex jar with center divider and lid for uniform cooling of chemicals. Another happy customer.

Glass cyclone features a stainless steel flange inlet

Jacketed glass gas mixer say that fast three times

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

Reservoir bottles with no hold-up bottom and side porting

Jacketed sparge tube over a meter long! filled with salt for safe shipment overseas

Small Glass Jacketed Bioreactor with threaded teflon bushings

Small jacketed bottle shown with a teflon membrane cap

5 liter mixing funnel featuring unique inserted Teflon baffling system

Glass rectangular tank for Sakura DRS-60 autostainer

Yet another reservoir... most glassblowing could be considered "custom", by virtue of being made by hand.

Measuring reservoir with 1/4"-28 threaded glass connection

Chromatography Gallery

Chromatography column small diameter bore with 24/40 taper joint, reservoir, and teflon stopcock

Large fritted glass columns with fully open tops

Glass chromatography columns

Really big column with a 200 mm diameter, and custom rack, and Mary

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

Glass chromatography column with a 35/20 socket, reservoir, 50mm ID bore, and teflon stopcock

Jacketed column with flanges at both ends

Glass chromatography columns a chemist's request for columns with various bore diameters

Glass chromatography columns come in any configuration you desire

Columns typically various!

Glass chromatography columns with various aspect ratios

Flow control for pressurization/drive of column contents

Fermentation and Cell Culture Gallery

15L and 20L glass cell culture vessels with individually calibrated volume indications

Growth Flask

3L fermentation vessel with permanent fired-on decal graduations

3L Jacketed fermentation vessel in the "spinner flask" form

6L jacketed fermentation vessel in the "spinner flask" form

6L spinner vessel with 100-440 thread on center and two GL45 side ports

7L jacketed vessel with the flange to fit standard stainless steel headplates

1L glass vessel to fit existing stand and hardware

20L flanged fermentation vessels precision tooled to close tolerances from 240 mm (9-1/2") tubing.

45L Carboy with 100-440 thread on center and two GL45 side ports

Jacketed fermentation vessel

40L glass carboy features indented bottom to address "dead space" during mixing

45L carboy, 2-port another porting configuration

6L baffled erlenmeyer with bottom port; for cell culture

40L glass bioreactor You can have as many ports as you want!

15L glass vessel detail we have alot of experience fitting existing hardware

20L, 15L, & 7L Glass fermentation vessels featuring permanent graduations

1L and 3L vessels

Electrochemistry Gallery

Baby echem cells with platimum electrodes

Jacketed glass cell includes well for magnetic stirring

Custom echem cell with Luggin capillary

Jacketed & Unjacketed echem cells for rotating electrode

Jacketed echem cell, complete with all the bells and whistles

Jacketed electrochemical cell for use with a rotating electrode and Luggin capillary

Electrochem cell for automated electochemistry

Jacketed electrochemical cell

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

Custom electrochem cell with a UV-transparent quartz window

Custom salt bridge

Echem Pt electrode

Small multi-port cell FTIR cell

Jacketed electrochemical cell in yet another incarnation

Simple cell for plate electrode sits on a foil plate

Small glass RDE chamber completed

Jacketed cell shown with "blank" teflon cap, bubbler and bridge

Glass electrochemical cell prototype shown with its luggin capillary

Small echem cell simple design per customer

Glass electrochemical cell for use with insertable membrane bridge

Glass electro-chem cell a simple "H" design

Photoelectrochemical cell with a quartz window in the side for UV transparency. The customer is happy.

Multiple salt bridges per request

68 liter tank for echem with the top lapped flat for sealing. Fashioned from two 45L carboys

un-jacketed version

Filtration Glassware Gallery

Buchner funnels

12L jacketed Buchner funnel with 200 mm frit and a 15ml funnel for scale

Buchner funnel custom configuration

Cored frits cut from larger disc

Re-cored frits in large quantities

Filter funnels come in many sizes and forms

Fritted membrane support with matched funnel

Funnel for membrane support filter

SS screen filter support for 47mm membrane filtration

28mm fritted base with fritted membrane support

Fritted funnel with 14/20 vacuum take-off built in

In-line filtration glassware for GMP production

47mm glass fritted base with a built in vacuum take-off

Microfiltration 25mm sintered glass support

Glass / stainless support for 47mm membrane and a 40/35 tapered joint for vacuum filtration

Fractionator with fritted base for use with standard 47mm membranes

6L jacketed filtration glassware an in-line filter for CGMP production

Filtration glassware for small membrane work

47mm membrane fritted glass support features a 24/40 glass joint vacuum take-off

Filter Flasks for vacuum assisted filtration

General Glassware Gallery

3L Soxhlet Extractor

4L Savant trap with GL14 threaded hose connections

10 ml Addition Funnel

Adapters We can adapt anything to anything!

Allihn Condenser

Amber 50ml vessel for photosensitive compounds

Ammonia Condenser

Glass Bubblers /air locks one with a 24/40 jt, the other with 14/20 joint

Custom Beaker

Cyclone and receiver

Dean Stark trap with 14/20 joints

Glass diffusion pump for high vacuum

Double Reflux Condenser

Franz cell for skin permeation testing

Funnels with Ace thread connections

Gas sample bottle for sampling vocanic gases

Gas sampling glassware by Adams & Chittenden in use at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

CGMP glassware

Jacketed 1L vessel with plastic safety coating

Jacketed addition funnel

Microkjeldahl still for nitrogen determination by digestion

Mini cold fingers

Oil bubblers

Plastic coating after sadness, without disaster

Small scale microdistillation with icewater condenser

Small liquid-liquid extractors

Savant style traps 1L and 4L glass traps

Swizzle sticks for simple swizzling

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.

Modified Savant Trap with o-ring joint

Inline foam stop filters for use in rotovaps and lyophilization as foam and particulate stops

Vigreaux columns

Firepolishing the edges of windows

125ml Erlenmeyer with threaded closure. It's a pleasure to replace plastic with GLASS!

Jacketed Erlenmeyer flasks used as receivers with a cyclone

5L water trap per customer request

NMR tube cleaner with unbreakable SS solvent tube

Biometer flask for determining carbon dioxide evolution by microorganisms

Jacketed bioreactors

Glass pressure vessels features heavy-walled glass and teflon plugs for reactions at higher pressures

Perfusion glassware

TLC chamber or TLC jar. Features flat bottom

Glass membrane weight you gotta make peace when you can!

Sand blasted glass cylinder a finish often used for lighting fixtures, or "hurricanes"

Distillation glassware for steam distillation

Steam distillation units

Glass Jacketed Beaker for a calibration protocol

Graham Condenser Classic Scientific Glassblowing!

3L Morton style flask for increased agitation of contents

Glass Moncada Cell QT Moncada apparatus with #18 clamp

4.5L glass beaker custom glass beaker with very flat bottom

Glass digestion tube or simply another variation on the humble test tube

NMR tube cleaner exploded

Sand blasted lamp for a "frosted" surface

Manifolds and Vacuum Gallery

4 place double manifold constructed for a tight space!

5 place double manifold

6 place single manifold

18 inch N2 Condenser Trap with 71/60 joint for maximum vapor path

Angled Manifold Waste solvent from peptide synthesis vessels attached to each joint runs out to a solvent reservoir.

Cold Trap

Custom trap

Diffusion pump All glass diffusion pump for use with silicone oil.

Diffusion pump for use with silicone oil.

Double Manifold, 10 places with offset stopcocks for compactness

Double manifold with crossover stopcock for evacuating and purging the inert gas line, and gauge connection

Double trap The trap vessels (not shown) can be isolated and emptied without breaking vacuum on the rest of the system.

High Efficiency Trap with O-ring joints and clamp

Liquid N2 trap

Single manifold

Single manifold with vents Each port of the manifold can be vented individually via the T-bore stopcock

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.

Glass Schlenk vessels for conducting air-free reactions