AN APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DEPOSITING, PRESERVING AND RECOVERING SPECIMENS OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS IN/FROM A REFRIGERATED STORE USING TWO DISTINCT STATIC ROBOTS

摘要

There is described an apparatus for automatically depositing, preserving and recovering specimens of biological materials contained in test tubes (2) in/from a refrigerated store (1). Said apparatus comprises two test tube handling devices (3) between test tube containers (5) and carriers (200) positioned on a conveyor (4) adapted to automatically handle said test tubes (2); said two test tube handling devices (3) are intended the one to load said test tubes (2) from the refrigerated store (1) to the conveyor (4) and the other to unload test tubes (2) from the conveyor (4) to the refrigerated store (1). Said test tube containers (5) are handled between said refrigerated store (1) and said test tube handling devices (3) by a container handling device (8).