Abstract A device for collecting, transporting and dividing test carrying containers has a transporting band provided with suitable holding means which receive individually so-called entire test containers supplied from a store tank and having coded information for identification and treatment of the container contents. They are transported to a reading device and from there further into a decanting position of a test divider. There actuating electronic means influenced by the reading device operate a dosing and characterizing device to divide the entire contents of the container or a part thereof into so-called individually examined containers and to provide their codes. The invention is particularly characterized in that transporting band is moved from the decanting position to several storage tanks. A push-out device operated by the electronic means is located at the receiving side of the storage tanks and is used to move the individual entire testing containers corresponding to information produced by the reading device for the transporting band into a collecting tank corresponding to the required further treatment.
A device in accordance with claim 1, comprising a separate transporting device having means transporting groups of said containers extending parallel to the direction of movement of said transporting band from said supply tank to said transporting band.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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A device in accordance with claim 2, wherein said separate transporting device comprises a driving motor and a tumbler switch connected with said motor and located at the outlet of said supply tank below said container-receiving means of the transporting band, said tumbler switch stopping said transporting device after transporting one of said groups until the last container of said one group has left the outlet region of said supply tank.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
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A device in accordance with claim 1, wherein said push-out device comprises a number of push-out levers equal to the number of said collecting tanks, a camshaft and cams carried by said camshaft, said electronic means operatively connecting each of said cams during a rotation of said camshaft with a specific push-out lever.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
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A device in accordance with claim 4, having a step-wise operated switching device and a motor, the means moving said transporting band having a driving shaft, said switching device being connected with said motor, said driving shaft and said camshaft for driving said driving shaft and said camshaft in synchronism.