At an assembly/robot to load/unload Petri dishes, at a magazine, a mechanism grips around the dish lid to raise it an angle for removal while the body of the dish is moved forward horizontally

摘要

The mechanism (14) is for the removal of the lid (12d) of a Petri dish (12), where the dish has a base (12b) and a cylindrical side wall (12c). A lid grip (67) lifts the dish lid from the lower body (12a) of the dish with a grip around the lid edge (12e), while a lower guide (66) moves the dish . The lid lifting and dish movement are at diverging angles, so that the lid is raised at an increasing angle from the horizontal.