Patent ID: 9557343
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: C12M,G01N

Claim:
1. A method of dispensing discs impregnated with antibiotics, said method comprising the steps of: providing a culture dish in a starting position; moving the culture dish from the starting position into an operating position; providing a magazine comprising a plurality of tubular containers, each tubular container containing a stack of discs to be dispensed, when the culture dish is in the operating position moving one disc from a bottom end of a tubular container in a radial direction outwardly to a pick-up position, picking up the one disc from the pick-up position, transferring the one disc to the culture dish and dispensing the one disc onto the culture dish, controlling the step of moving the culture dish and the step of transferring the one disc to the culture dish to dispense a disc impregnated with antibiotics onto the culture dish in the operating position, wherein the method comprises the step of rotating the plurality of tubular containers around a magazine centre when the culture dish is in the operating position.