Bucket Covers - Beckman Coulter GH-3.8 Instructions For Use Manual

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Place bucket covers on rotor buckets to prevent blood bags or tubing from contacting the rotor
yoke during centrifugation.
Figure 9 Blood Bag Loading Procedures
Blood Bag Seam
Aligned with
Pivotal Axis of
Bucket
Blood Bag
Label
CAUTION
If bucket covers are not used, make sure the superstructure of the blood bag
protruding from the cup does not inhibit the bucket from reaching its horizontal
position. If it does, remove the cup from the rotor and reposition the blood bag so
that it seats further into the cup. Allowing the blood bags to contact the rotor yoke
during centrifugation can cause the bucket to come off the pivot pins and can
seriously damage both the rotor and the centrifuge.
If only two filled cups are run, place them in opposing buckets. The other two buckets should
contain similar "blank" loads to prevent imbalance (either empty modular disk adapters or water-
filled blood bags in cups).

Bucket Covers

Beckman Coulter recommends that you use bucket covers (360586) to help contain spills and glass
particles in the event of tube breakage. Bucket covers can be used with all blood bags, bottles
(except 230-mL conical), and tubes up to 130 mm long. They are not designed to contain aerosols.
NOTE
Because of the shape of the covers, 130-mm tubes can be used only in the center cavities of the
adapters when covers are used.
PN GS6-TB-003MD
Sandwich Coiled
Blood Bag Label
Tubing between
Transfer Bags
Blood Bag Label
Blood Bag Label
Loading the Rotor
and Filled
Blood Bag
Blood Bag Cup
GH-3.8 Rotor
Ports
Blood Bag
Seam
Blood Bag
Label
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