APPARATUS FOR THE FILLING OF PETRI DISHES

摘要

An apparatus for filling Petri dishes with cover comprises an alongated sterile chamber in which a dish and lid are fed forward in rectilinear paths in different levels from a stack of closed dishes in a hopper at one end of the sterile chamber, the dish being caused to drop down on the bottom of the chamber between slide rails that catch the edge of the lid. In one position of the travelling path the dish is filled with substrate, and in a subsequent position the lid is caused to drop down on the dish. Preferably the distance between the slide rails is adjustable.