1. A pipette comprising:
a pipette housing comprising,
an accommodation constructed and arranged to engage a fastening portion of a syringe cylinder of a syringe,
a plunger accommodation in an accommodation body for a syringe plunger of the syringe,
a plurality of syringe gripping levers and a plurality of plunger gripping levers, the syringe gripping levers and the plunger gripping levers constructed and arranged for reversibly fixing the fastening portion and the syringe plunger in the accommodation and the plunger accommodation, the syringe gripping levers having releasing levers,
plunger setting devices constructed and arranged to shift the accommodation body in the pipette housing, a pull-up member for removing the accommodation body from the accommodation, and an actuation member for drawing the accommodation body proximate to the accommodation,
an ejection slider constructed and arranged to be displaced into a releasing position from a holding position, the ejection slider being further constructed and arranged to be shifted along a housing-stationary guiding in order to actuate the releasing levers, and
a displacing mechanism constructed and arranged to displace the ejection slider from the holding position into the releasing position and from the releasing position into the holding position.
2. A pipette according to claim 1, wherein the fastening portion and the syringe plunger are constructed and arranged to be axially shiftable into a fastening position via axial openings of the accommodation and the plunger accommodation.
3. A pipette according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of syringe gripping levers and a plurality of plunger gripping levers have radially closable gripping devices for fixing the fastening portion and the syringe plunger in a fastening position.
4. A pipette according to claim 3, wherein the syringe gripping levers are pivotally mounted in the pipette housing, and
the plunger gripping levers are pivotally mounted in the accommodation body,
the syringe gripping levers and the plunger gripping levers each having a gripping arm and an actuation arm,
the actuation arm of the syringe gripping levers have inner sides and outsides and contact sites on the inner sides of the actuation arms, which, by actuating the actuation arms at the outside, are turnable against the actuation arms of the plunger gripping levers, and
the plunger gripping levers, and the syringe gripping levers have releasing levers projecting towards the inside on the actuation arms.
5. A pipette according to claim 1, wherein the displacing mechanism constructed and arranged to displace the ejection slider is coupled to the plunger setting devices.
6. A pipette according to claim 5, the ejection slider further comprising a first take-along surface, a first take-along element connected to the accommodation body, a first guiding mechanism, a second guiding mechanism, a second take-along surface, and a second take-along element.
7. A pipette according to claim 6, wherein the first take-along element is the housing of a spigot accommodation for a spigot of the pull-up member.
8. A pipette according to claim 6, wherein the second take-along surface and the second take-along element are ramp elements or cam elements of the ejection slider and the accommodation body.
9. A pipette according to claim 8, wherein at least one ramp element or cam element is arranged on a tongue connected with the accommodation body.
10. A pipette according to claim 8, wherein at least one ramp element or cam element is arranged on at least one of the bracing struts.
11. A pipette according to claim 6, wherein the first guiding mechanism and the second guiding mechanism are ramp elements or cam elements.
12. A pipette according to claim 1, wherein the displacing mechanism has a manually actuatable adjustment member constructed and arranged to be adjusted into a first adjustment position for displacing the ejection slider into the holding position, and into a further adjustment position for displacing the ejection slider into the releasing position.
13. A pipette according to claim 1, wherein the ejection slider is constructed and arranged to be displaced from the holding position into the releasing position and from the releasing position into the holding position by the displacing mechanism only when the accommodation body is arranged in an end portion of a displacement range, proximate to the accommodation.
14. A pipette according to claim 13, further comprising an automatic suspending mechanism constructed and arranged to automatically suspend the displaceability of the accommodation body by the actuation member when the accommodation body is proximate to the end portion of the displacement range.
15. A pipette according to claim 14, wherein the accommodation body is displaceable by actuating the pull-up member in the end portion of the displacement range.
16. A pipette according to claim 14, further comprising a canceling mechanism constructed and arranged to cancel an automatic suspension of the displaceability of the accommodation body by the actuation member through a manually actuatable adjustment member, the manually actuatable adjustment member being settable between a first adjustment position in which the automatic suspension is active, and a further adjustment position in which the automatic suspension is cancelled.
17. A pipette according to claim 1, the ejection slider having two parallel rods which are connected with each other by transversely directed bracing struts.
18. A pipette according to claim 17, wherein the first take-along surface and the second take-along surface are arranged on sides of the bracing struts.
19. A pipette according to claim 1, the actuation member comprising and at least one stop.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. Method for operating an account payable computing system, comprising the steps of:
preprocessing electronic invoices received from a vendor to identify duplicate invoices;
introducing invoices not identified as duplicate invoices into an accounts payable data base; and
rejecting invoices identified as duplicate invoices back to said vendor without introducing said duplicate invoices into said accounts payable data base.
2. A method for operating a computing system, comprising the steps of:
grabbing an inbound EDI invoice file from a vendor before it is input to an accounts payable database;
auditing said inbound EDI invoice file for a duplicate invoice item;
upon determining said inbound EDI invoice is a duplicate, creating a duplicate invoice transaction back to said vendor; and
posting to said accounts payable database only those invoices determined not to be duplicates.
3. The method of claim 2, said auditing step comprising the further steps of:
first sorting said inbound EDI invoice against an accounts payable production table for same vendor and same vendor invoice number;
second sorting hits from said first sorting for same purchase order billed;
third sorting hits from said second sorting for same items billed on purchase order;
fourth sorting hits from said third sorting to identify said inbound EDI invoice as a duplicate invoice if it contains an item having a net sum greater than zero.
4. Method for operating a computing system responsive to receipt of an electronic input invoice from a vendor, comprising the steps of:
grabbing said input invoice before it is input to an accounts payable database;
identifying previously received invoices from said vendor having the same vendor invoice identifier;
identifying said previously received invoices having the same vendor invoice identifier any items corresponding to items on said input invoice;
calculating the net sum of items on said input invoice having corresponding items on said previously received invoices;
for an input invoice having an item with a net sum greater than zero, communicating a duplicate invoice rejection message back to said vendor; and
for an input invoice having no item with a net sum greater than zero, posting said input invoice to said accounts payable database.
5. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for processing electronic input invoices from a vendor, said method steps comprising:
preprocessing said input invoices to identify duplicate invoices;
introducing invoices not identified as duplicate invoices into an accounts payable data base for payment; and
rejecting invoices identified as duplicate invoices back to said vendor without introducing said duplicate invoices into said accounts payable data base for payment.
6. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for operating a computing system responsive to receipt of an electronic input invoice from a vendor, said method steps comprising:
grabbing said input invoice before it is input to an accounts payable database;
identifying previously received invoices from said vendor having the same vendor invoice identifier;
identifying said previously received invoices having the same vendor invoice identifier any items corresponding to items on said input invoice;
calculating the net sum of items on said input invoice having corresponding items on said previously received invoices;
for an input invoice having an item with a net sum greater than zero, communicating a duplicate invoice rejection message back to said vendor; and
for an input invoice having no item with a net sum greater than zero, posting said input invoice to said accounts payable database.
7. An article of manufacture comprising:
a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for operating a computing system responsive to receipt of an electronic input invoice from a vendor, the computer readable program means in said article of manufacture comprising:
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect grabbing said input invoice before it is input to an accounts payable database;
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect identifying previously received invoices from said vendor having the same vendor invoice identifier;
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect identifying said previously received invoices having the same vendor invoice identifier any items corresponding to items on said input invoice;
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect calculating the net sum of items on said input invoice having corresponding items on said previously received invoices;
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect for an input invoice having an item with a net sum greater than zero, communicating a duplicate invoice rejection message back to said vendor; and
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect for an input invoice having no item with a net sum greater than zero, posting said input invoice to said accounts payable database.
8. An article of manufacture comprising:
a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for processing electronic input invoices from a vendor, the computer readable program means in said article of manufacture comprising:
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect preprocessing said input invoices to identify duplicate invoices;
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect introducing invoices not identified as duplicate invoices into an accounts payable data base for payment; and
computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect rejecting invoices identified as duplicate invoices back to said vendor without introducing said duplicate invoices into said accounts payable data base for payment.
9. A computing system responsive to receipt of an electronic input invoice from a vendor, comprising:
means for grabbing said input invoice before it is input to an accounts payable database;
means for identifying previously received invoices from said vendor having the same vendor invoice identifier;
means for identifying said previously received invoices having the same vendor invoice identifier any items corresponding to items on said input invoice;
means for calculating the net sum of items on said input invoice having corresponding items on said previously received invoices;
means, responsive to an input invoice having an item with a net sum greater than zero, for communicating a duplicate invoice rejection message back to said vendor; and
means, responsive to an input invoice having no item with a net sum greater than zero, for posting said input invoice to said accounts payable database.