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Class III BSCs and Pharmaceutical Isolators

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The IsoGARD Glovebox Model IG-12

The Baker Company has developed a standard line of gloveboxes that have been designed to meet the very stringent performance and leak testing requirements of Class III biological safety cabinetry, as defined by the US Federal Register.

The IsoGARD series is designed with an integral full-size pass-thru chamber with a unique front opening, glass panel door that allows users to introduce samples into the main working chamber with ease. The cabinets are built using heavy 11-gauge, highly corrosion-resistant 316L stainless steel in a unibody type construction to eliminate cracks and crevices. Designed to handle deadly microbiological agents and pharmaceutical potent compounds under contained conditions, IsoGARD units are supplied with full coverage supply HEPA filters to insure a Class III operating environment as well as easily removable specially designed cartridge-style exhaust HEPA filters.

Other features such as an ergonomic 10° tilt to the viewing windows, oval armports, and an exhaust plenum built to the rear of the cabinet make for a system that is much easier to work in than Class III gloveboxes of a previous generation.

The IsoGARD is designed in three standard models offering two, three, and four glove primary working chambers along with a host of options that will allow a user to tailor a cabinet to meet most standard requirements.

To learn more about the IsoGARD Series or to discuss an application, contact your local representative or an applications engineer directly at The Baker Company.

Specialty Class III Gloveboxes and Isolators
In addition to the standard IsoGARD series, The Baker Company designs and manufactures Class III gloveboxes and isolators to meet specific user applications. Unique requirements for aerosolization studies, vaccine research, and handling hazardous biological or chemical agents are all projects that our Custom Engineered Products Division deals with on a routine basis.

All equipment is manufactured and tested to exacting standards to assure the integrity of your research and safety. Our applications engineers are ready to discuss your unique requirements. Drawing on the company’s past experiences with hundreds of special applications, we can often make specific recommendations in minutes as well as provide drawings and quotations.

Receiving Isolator

Working directly with governmental agencies and public health laboratories, The Baker Company has developed this specially designed Class III receiving glovebox to accommodate the handling of incoming samples of a suspicious nature. Designed to handle either biological or chemical agents, the cabinet is equipped with an oversized pass-thru chamber with a hinged work surface to ergonomically manipulate different sized coolers, boxes or cans that may come in from the field. A 6’ working chamber with a built in disinfectant dunk tank is used to analyze and identify the unknown sample. Like all Class III equipment, the cabinet runs under a negative pressure in relation to the laboratory and is equipped with various alarms and interlocks to assure safe operation.

Custom Class III Containment Line

A major university commissioned The Baker Company to build a custom Class III containment line to handle its research and work with a Biosafety Level 4 pathogen. Working together with the end users and a group of architects that specialize in the design of high containment laboratories, Baker built a fully integral line of Class III cabinetry. The line consisted of cabinets integrated with an ultracentrifuge, laminar flow work stations, microscopes with remote viewing screens, incubators, well type refrigerators and freezers, dunk tanks and an autoclave.

For more information on specialty Class III gloveboxes and isolators, contact an applications engineer directly at The Baker Company.