Patent ID: 8602715
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: B01L,B65G,G01N

Abstract:
1. A device for loading, storing and providing objects having standardized dimensions, the device comprising: a storage unit including: a substructure disposed underneath the carrier plate; an unloading device configured to unload a selected object from a first of the stackers that is disposed in a transfer position, the unloading device being disposed in the substructure below the transfer position such that a selected object is unloadable by movement through the carrier plate, wherein the storage unit is rotatable around the rotation axis so as to rotate each of the stackers into the transfer position; a lifting device configured to vertically raise and lower the objects disposed in a respective stacker; and a separation device corresponding to each stacker and configured to separate a lowermost object in the stack of objects from the respective objects above the lowermost object, the separation device comprising horizontal elements configured to controllably and reversibly extend into a free cross section of a respective stacker including: wherein individual elements of the separation device are configured to be height adjustable and provide vertical raising and lowering of the objects in the respective stacker so as to function as the lifting device.