Patent ID: 8150145

Claim:
An automated manufacturing device for producing a personalized 3D object in a blank 3D object in view of a set of 3D data and of parameters selected by a user, comprising: a platform for receiving the blank 3D object; a sub-surface laser engraver for altering the blank 3D object on said platform in view of the set of 3D data and the parameters selected by the user, thereby producing the personalized 3D object; a delivering device for delivering the personalized 3D object to the user; and a loading device for loading a blank 3D object onto the platform, said loading device comprising: At least one vertical storage for storing a plurality of said blank 3D objects in a vertically stacked arrangement, each vertical storage having a bottom opening allowing a lowermost one of the blank 3D objects in said vertical storage therethrough; and A rotatable tray disposed underneath said vertical storage obstructively of said bottom opening, the rotatable tray having a slit therein sized to receive the lowermost one of the blank 3D objects from said vertical storage, said tray being computer controlled to rotate between an object-receiving position where the slit is aligned with the bottom opening of one of the at least one vertical storage to receive the lowermost one of the blank 3D objects therein, a loading position where the slit is positioned over said platform to load the blank 3D object thereon, and a delivering position where the slit collaborates with the delivering device.