Patent ID: 8512651

Claim:
A system for cutting at least one thin section from a sample block that is arranged in a cassette and tagging at least one specimen slide such that it can be allocated to a specific sample block, said system comprising: a microtome for cutting the at least one thin section from a sample block when the cassette is inserted into the microtome; and an apparatus for tagging the at least one specimen slide such that it can be allocated to the sample block when the sample block is inserted into the microtome, said apparatus comprising: at least one receiving region for receiving at least one cassette magazine having at least one cassette, the cassette having a cassette identifier having at least one machine-readable coded information; a removal unit for removing a cassette from the cassette magazine; a cassette output region that is connected to the microtome for releasing the cassette that has been removed from the cassette magazine and delivering the cassette automatically to the microtome; at least one reading unit for reading the machine-readable coded information of the cassette identifier of a cassette; at least one tagging unit for generating an at least machine-readable coded information for tagging the specimen slide with a specimen slide identifier that depends on the cassette identifier read by the reading unit; and at least one data transfer path connecting the apparatus to the microtome, transferring data from the microtome to the apparatus when the cassette is inserted into the microtome, and enabling the tagging unit for tagging the at least one specimen slide with the machine-readable coded information when the cassette is inserted in the microtome.