Patent ID: 7284760

Claim:
A holding device for disk-shaped objects, comprising: a central clamping arm fixture, and at least two centrally mounted and outwardly extending clamping arms, comprising support surfaces adapted for the object and pivotable gripper fingers, in which the gripper fingers are pivotable on a pivot axis from a holding position into an opening position and vice versa, and are pretensioned by means of at least one pretension element and are actuated by means of at least one opening mechanism, wherein the gripper fingers are pivotally mounted in such a manner that they grasp the object only perpendicular in relation to a disk surface in the holding position, wherein an edge of the object is clamped between the gripper fingers and the support surface, and wherein said at least one opening mechanism and at least one pretension element are integrated in the central clamping arm fixture or the clamping arms, or a combination thereof.