Patent ID: 8795144

Claim:
An apparatus for automatically centrifuging test tubes containing biological material, comprising: a plurality of centrifuges functionally identical to one another yet independent and adapted to centrifuge test tubes offered to an interface for centrifuging test tubes by means of a conveying system included in an automatic conveyor of test tubes, the plurality of centrifuges rotatably mounted on a turntable adapted to offer each centrifuge at a suitable loading/unloading position adjacent to the loading/unloading point of the interface, wherein each centrifuge is provided with a motor adapted to generate the centrifugal motion by setting a rotor in rotation; and a test tube handling device comprising an arm with a first gripper adapted to load test tubes to be centrifuged and a second gripper adapted to unload centrifuged test tubes, simultaneously to said loading, said arm sliding along a curved guide adapted to generate a forced rotation of the grippers.