Delivery device for cassettes and/or specimen slides for histological preparations in a printing system

US6814257B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Leica Microsystems Nussloch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Kiene · Eppelheim, DE
• Andreas Laudat · Meckesheim, DE
• Holger Metzner · Schallstadt, DE
• Manfred Biehl · Norderstedt, DE
• Roland Walter · Tiefenbronn, DE
• Bernd Guenther · Zeven, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 30, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 9, 2004
• Expiry date: Jan 14, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G59/067
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A delivery device (5) for cassettes and/or specimen slides for histological preparations in a printing system (11) is described. The cassettes and/or specimen slides are in each case arranged one above another in stack magazines (6), a control device (1) being provided for removal of a cassette and/or specimen slide from the stack magazines (6). The improvement comprises a drive shaft (12) having a motor (13) for at least two stack magazines (6), and the motor (13) is connected to the control device (1).