Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With conveying means to supply successive receivers
Patent
1999-10-04
2000-11-21
Douglas, Steven O.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With conveying means to supply successive receivers
141130, 422100, 422103, 436180, B65B 104
Patent
active
06148878&
ABSTRACT:
An automated machine for filling a plurality of microplates. The automated machine includes at least one input stacking chamber for stacking empty microplates, at least one output stacking chamber for stacking filled microplates, and a microplate filling assembly disposed between the at least one input stacking chamber and the at least one output stacking chamber. The microplate filling assembly has: (1) an input chamber lifting mechanism for periodically lifting all microplates but the bottom microplate in the at least one input stacking chamber, (2) a linear actuator, (3) a walking beam indexer attached to the linear actuator, driven by the linear actuator and positioned to move microplates from the at least one input stacking chamber to the at least one output stacking chamber, (4) a lid lifter attached to the linear actuator, for lifting the lid off of each microplate to permit the microplate to be filled, and after filling to replace the lid, (5) a nozzle in communication with a media source and positioned to fill the microplates after their lids have been lifted off, and (6) an output chamber lifting mechanism for lifting all filled microplates in the at least one output stacking chamber to provide a space for recently filled microplates to be moved to a bottom position in the at least one stacking chamber. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there are ten input stacking chambers and ten output stacking chambers and they are mounted on an input carousel and output carousel, respectively.
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Brovold Christopher T.
Ganz Brian L.
Moulds Andrew
Douglas Steven O.
RoboDesign International, Inc.
Ross John R.
Ross III John R.
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