Patent ID: 6814257
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: B41J,B65G

Abstract:
An improvement in an apparatus for delivering cassettes and/or specimen slides for histological preparations in a printing system (11), the cassettes and/or specimen slides being in each case arranged one above another in stack magazines (6), and the apparatus having a control device (1) for removal of a cassette or a specimen slide from the stack magazines (6), wherein the improvement comprises:a drive shaft (12); a plurality of entrainment disks (14) mounted on the drive shaft (12), each of the plurality of entrainment disks (14) corresponding to a respective one of the stack magazines (6); a plurality of sliders (21) corresponding one to each of the plurality of stack magazines (6) for ejecting a cassette or specimen slide from the corresponding stack magazines (6), each of said plurality of sliders (21) being operatively connected to a respective one of the plurality of entrainment disks (14); and a motor (13) connected to the control device (1) and to the drive shaft (12) for rotating the drive shaft (12).