Patent ID: 8272225
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: B01L,G01N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cooling cassette magazines containing tissue samples, said apparatus comprising: a housing with a base plate; a cooling device with at least one cooling element in the base plate of the housing; an air channel of the housing that communicates with the remainder of the housing and extends from the base plate upwards; and a transport apparatus for transporting one or more cassette magazines within the housing; wherein said housing comprises an input chute for cassette magazines in the upper region of the housing and an output chute for cassette magazines in the lower region of the housing; and the transport apparatus is designed as a transport apparatus that transports the one or more cassette magazines from the upper region within the housing to the lower region so that a temperature gradient of decreasing temperature from the upper region to the lower region is used advantageously for cooling the one or more cassette magazines.