Patent ID: 8852507

Claim:
An interfacing apparatus between a pneumatic mail system and a laboratory automation system, comprising a transfer device of biological product containers arriving from the pneumatic mail system inside capsules comprising an inner chamber, where said transfer device comprising a surface for said containers and a hopper device, wherein said interfacing apparatus comprises said capsules arriving from said pneumatic mail system, each of said capsules comprising an upper flange and a lower flange separably mounted on said capsule suitable for passing an inner chamber of said capsule from a closed position, suitable for withholding in sealing manner said biological product containers inside the inner chamber of the capsule, to an opened position, suitable for opening said inner chamber of the capsule by moving vertically a piston of said transfer device to engage said lower flange and transporting said lower flange to a lower position of said piston where transferring means of said transfer device being suitable for transferring said biological product containers to a selected of at least two cavities of said surface according to an information provided by a Laboratory Information System of said laboratory automation system and each one of said at least two cavities of said surface being connected to respective at least one of at least two said hopper devices suitable for supplying said biological product containers to said laboratory automation system.