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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Alexander V. Drynkin, San Ramon, CA (US);
David B. Miller, Orinda, CA (US);
Alexander V. Drynkin, San Ramon, CA (US);
David B. Miller, Orinda, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A laboratory tube printer and labeler for labeling laboratory tubes with printed labels, the tube printer and labeler advantageously accommodating an automated tube handling device having a robotic pickup and placement mechanism where the tube printer and labeler has a housing having an upper deck with a printing station and a tube labeling and pickup station displaced from the printing station such that the labeling and pickup station can be accessed by the robotic pickup and placement mechanism wherein a printed label is transported to the labeling and pickup station and applied to a laboratory tube placed in the labeling and pickup station.