Hamilton Storage Gmbh

Marco Hosang

Martin Frey

Tobias Gafafer

Orlando Grischott

Jael Graf

Gian Zaugg

Martina Cavegn

A laboratory storage cabinet, including a cabinet housing, which delimits a storage space inside the cabinet housing from an outer surrounding area of the storage cabinet, wherein the cabinet housing has an air lock, which allows the transport of material between an inner transfer position, situated in the storage space, and an outer transfer position, situated in the outer surrounding area, wherein the storage space contains a storage device for receiving material at defined storage positions, and wherein the storage space contains a material-handling device for transporting material between the inner transfer position and the storage device, wherein, in a wall of the cabinet housing, the air lock has an air-lock opening, which passes through the wall, the air lock having a rotary element, which is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation in relation to the cabinet housing and has at least one loading formation, which is fitted in the air-lock opening in such a way that the loading formation can be moved between the inner transfer position and the outer transfer position by rotation of the rotary element about the axis of rotation.

Laboratory storage cabinet with a rotary element in a transfer air lock

The present invention relates to a method of loading a sample storage device () for a plurality of sample carriers (A-E) equipped with sample containers (), said method comprising: during removal of sample containers () from the sample storage device (): providing at least one output sample carrier (A) having sample containers () that can be taken up from the output sample carrier (A); providing a target sample carrier (B) in which sample containers () taken up from the output sample carrier (A) can be deposited; providing a refilling sample carrier (C) which is at least partially filled with sample containers (); removing at least one sample container () from the output sample carrier (A) and depositing the at least one sample container () in the target sample carrier (B), and for each sample container () removed from the output sample carrier (A) and deposited in the target sample carrier (B), removing another sample container () from the refilling sample carrier (C) and refilling the space of the removed sample container () in the output sample carrier (A) with the other sample container () from the refilling sample carrier (C). Moreover, the invention relates to a loading system () designed for performing the method.

Method for loading a specimen storage device for a plurality of specimen carriers loaded with specimen vessels, and specimen-loading system

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