Patent ID: 7829028

Claim:
A storage unit ( 1 ) for biological samples, having an essentially horizontal main footprint ( 2 ) and multiple storage compartments ( 3 ), which are at least partially separated from one another by intermediate walls ( 4 ) and are enclosed by a peripheral frame ( 5 ), the intermediate walls ( 4 ) and the peripheral frame ( 5 ) being part of the storage unit ( 1 ) and being situated essentially perpendicularly to the main footprint ( 2 ), and the storage compartments ( 3 ) having both a first opening ( 6 ) and also a second opening ( 7 ), wherein the storage compartments ( 3 ) are tailored to the shape of a biopsy cassette ( 8 ) or to the shape of a glass slide ( 30 ), so that a biopsy cassette ( 8 ) or a glass slide ( 30 ) is insertable into a storage compartment ( 3 ) through the first opening ( 6 ) and the second opening ( 7 ), and wherein the storage compartments ( 3 ) comprise retention means ( 9 ), which prevent the essentially vertically standing biopsy cassettes ( 8 ) or glass slides ( 30 ), from falling out through the first opening ( 6 ) as well as from falling out through the second opening ( 7 ), and said retention means ( 9 ) being implemented as keeping open the first opening ( 6 ) and the second opening ( 7 ).