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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2013
Applicants:
Alexander V. Drynkin, San Ramon, CA (US);
David B. Miller, Orinda, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alexander V. Drynkin, San Ramon, CA (US);
David B. Miller, Orinda, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A laboratory tube cap presenter for a tube, such as a test tube, a medical vial or other vessel that may be capped by an automated capper in a robotic tube handling apparatus, the tube cap presenter having a magazine of pre-oriented tube caps that cooperates with a selector mechanism and a shuttle mechanism to transport a selected tube cap to a presentation station where the tube cap is oriented for pick up by the pickup mechanism of a robotic tube handling apparatus.