A motorized apparatus to simultaneously excise, retrieve, temporarily store and transport a sample of material has a hollow
clamshell casing with a blended contoured grip for the fingers, a horizontal extension to eliminate slippage when held in a user's hand, and a
flange bottom portion from which a removable
cutting tool threaded to a
drive shaft extends downwards. Within the
clamshell casing an
electric motor is mounted which drives, via gears, a
drive shaft which rotates a
cutting tool threaded to the distal end of the
drive shaft. The end of the
cutting tool, distal from the
clamshell casing, forms a cutting edge circumscribing a circular region. An ejection rod slides reciprocally within the
cutting tool between a stowed position and an expulsion position. Users core a sample from the
source material by engaging contact between the cutting edge of the
cutting tool and the surface of the
source material, applying pressure against the surface of the
source material while simultaneously activating the motor to rotate the
cutting tool. The cutting region of the cutting tool passes through the source material contacting the
support surface below the source material which urges the cored sample into the lumen of the cutting tool. The sample may be stored in the lumen or transported. Activation of the ejection rod moves from the stowed position towards the expulsion position displacing the temporarily stored sample from the lumen space in the cutting tool into the appropriate collection receptacle or onto a desired surface.