Conveyors: power-driven – With means to facilitate working – treating – or inspecting... – Means to convey a palleted load back and forth between an...
Patent
1993-06-07
1994-10-04
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
With means to facilitate working, treating, or inspecting...
Means to convey a palleted load back and forth between an...
198349, 1983496, 1984651, B65G 3700
Patent
active
053518012
ABSTRACT:
An automated laboratory conveyor system includes a conveyor track arranged in a closed loop to continuously transport a specimen carrier having a laboratory specimen therein. A receiving station marks an individual specimen carrier to identify the carrier with a particular specimen. The receiving station includes an apparatus for placing an identified specimen carrier on the conveyor track. An archiving station is provided along the track to remove a predetermined specimen carrier therefrom for archival purposes. The receiving station and archiving station are both connected to a central control unit which is connected to the conveyor track and the laboratory information system to control the entire automated laboratory conveyor system. At least one work station is located along the conveyor track for performing a predetermined test on a particular specimen. Each work station includes a gate apparatus for transferring the selected specimen carrier to a work station. After the predetermined test has been conducted, the specimen carrier is placed back on the conveyor track loop by a second gate on the conveyor track. The first gate includes a reader for identifying a particular specimen carrier being conveyed by the conveyor track. The reader is also connected to the central control unit, as are the gates for each work station, so that particular specimens may be directed to an appropriate work station by the central control unit.
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Hoskinson Stephen J.
Markin Rodney S.
Tackett Eldon L.
Board of Regents - Univ. of Nebraska
Valenza Joseph E.
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