Patent ID: 8926036
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: B01L,G01N

Abstract:
1. A marking apparatus for marking histology embedding cassettes, made of plastic material and being of a type comprising a flat base, a first and a second external side opposite one another, having respectively a first and a second surface perpendicular to the flat base and parallel to one another, and further comprising a third external side having a flat oblique surface, the apparatus being characterized in that it comprises: at least a marking device suitable for marking plastic surfaces presented before it; at least a gripping means able to alternatively grip and release an embedding cassette; and a movement organ to rotate the gripping means with respect to at least a first rotation axis (R) and at least a second rotation axis (Q): the first rotation axis being arranged with respect to the gripping means in such a way that, in use, the first rotation axis is situated in an ideal plane that is parallel to and interposed between the ideal planes on which the perpendicular surfaces of a cassette gripped by the gripping means are located, so that, upon the rotation of the gripping means with respect to the first rotation axis, the first and the second perpendicular surfaces is alternatively located in front of the marking device the second rotation axis being perpendicular to the first rotation axis and being arranged with respect to he gripping means in such a way that, in use, upon the rotation of the gripping means with respect to the second rotation axis, the oblique surface of the gripped cassette is located in front.