Patent ID: 8857208

Claim:
A climatic cabinet comprising: an upper zone; a lower zone; storage positions for storing objects in one of the upper and lower zone; a plurality of supports arranged next to one another in a horizontal direction in the lower zone to support the storage positions and to be movable horizontally; at least one temperature control unit structured and arranged to maintain a temperature in the one of the upper and lower zone different from an other of the upper and lower zone; a lock; a horizontal transport mechanism arranged at least in part in the other of the upper and lower zone to move the objects to and from the lock in a direction having a horizontal component; and a vertical transport mechanism structured and arranged to move the objects between the lower zone and the upper zone, wherein the vertical transport mechanism: comprises a lifting device having a lift column attached in the upper zone and extending into the lower zone; and is horizontally movable in a first and in a second direction, and wherein the climatic cabinet further comprises a drive for displacing the plurality of supports along the horizontal direction in order to form a transport gap between neighboring supports to accommodate the lifting device.