Patent ID: 11945664
Assignee: SWISSLOG HEALTHCARE GMBH
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A pneumatic dispatch station, comprising:
a station housing with a receiving point and an output point;
a gripping device which can be moved automatically within the station housing between the receiving point and the output point;
the gripping device designed to automatically grip a pneumatic tube capsule that has arrived at the receiving point and to move the gripped capsule to the output point;
at least one removal point adjacent the output point;
a tool changer assigned to the output point and comprising:
at least one first emptying tool,
a second emptying tool that differs from the first emptying tool, and
a drive device designed to automatically move the first emptying tool or the second emptying tool into a working position in which the moved emptying tool is aligned with respect to a pneumatic tube capsule positioned at the output point whereby, by an actuating movement of the selected emptying tool, a transported object that is present in the pneumatic tube capsule is output from the pneumatic tube capsule and reaches the removal point.