Patent ID: 8682475

Claim:
A process for prioritizing urgent test tubes in a transport installation of test tubes, wherein single test tubes are classified as urgent and not-urgent and are loaded on transport devices in an automated analysis laboratory, comprising the steps of: loading the test tubes on transport devices; transporting the test tubes which are loaded on the transport devices on a belt conveyor to an identification device; identifying the test tubes as urgent and not-urgent which are loaded on the transport devices; drawing of the test tubes identified as not-urgent from respective transport devices; discharging said not-urgent test tubes onto a waiting bench; transporting the loaded transport devices of remaining urgent test tubes to upstream processing modules; recalling by a control unit of the not-urgent test tubes when the availability of the processing modules for the not-urgent test tubes is verified; and drawing the not-urgent test tubes on the transport device which are waiting on the waiting bench, wherein the waiting bench provides a local means for the waiting of not-urgent test tubes.