The O 184 serves research, analytical and clinical laboratories that reprocess small tubes in a Miele PG 8535 or PG 8536. Laboratory technicians and washroom staff load it with centrifuge tubes, phials, test tubes for fraction collectors and autosampler tubes. Miele offers pipette phial reprocessing and test tube reprocessing as application areas.
Loading is by position. Each tube goes onto one of the 96 ID 110 injector nozzles, which are 2.5 mm across and 110 mm long and stand in plastic supports. The basket has 170 mm of vertical clearance. The loaded basket then goes into the machine's upper level, where the drying connector links it to the hot-air drying unit. At the end of the run, each tube comes off the nozzle it was loaded onto.
The basket earns its place where small tubes arrive in volume. A laboratory whose centrifuges, fraction collectors and autosamplers turn out tubes every day can gather them into sets of 96 and send each set through one programme. Because centrifuge tubes, phials, and autosampler tubes share the same slim nozzles, you can mix sets from several instruments into one load. Tubes up to 170 mm tall fit the basket'svertical clearance.
Upkeep centres on the nozzles. All 96 are the same ID 110 type, so a single nozzle part covers every position in the basket. The basket itself is stainless steel and plastic and weighs 4.50 kg. Miele lists the A 5 cover as suitable, and material number 03807480 identifies the basket for reorders.