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    interfacing apparatus between a pneumatic mail system and a biological product container feeding system for a laboratory automation system. it is an interface device (1) between a pneumatic mail system (2) and a biological products feed system for a laboratory automation system (4), the device comprising a suitable capsule (5) to be transported in a pneumatic mail system (2) that accommodates in it one or more containers of biological material (3), said capsule (5) opening and connecting to a device (11) to transfer said biological material containers (3) contained in said capsule (5) for at least one recruitment device (18a, 18b) of said biological product containers (3), said at least one recruitment device (18a, 18b) ) is used to load said biological product containers (3) into a positioning device (21) which has interfaced with a grip device (22) of said biological product container (3) for transferring said product container biological (3) about a trans. automatic carrier (23) belonging to a laboratory automation system (4). said capsule (5) has an inner chamber (7) containing foam elements (8a, 8b) adapted to retain said biological product containers (3) present in said capsule.
    公开号:BR112013020818B1
    申请号:R112013020818-0
    申请日:2012-02-13
    公开日:2021-08-03
    发明作者:Gianandrea Pedrazzini
    申请人:Inpeco Holding Ltd；
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    专利说明:

    [001] The present intervention refers to an interface device between a pneumatic mail system and a biological product container feeding system for a laboratory automation system.
    [002] Currently, the problem of transporting biological product samples in hospital departments, in particular from the point at which such samples are taken from the patient to the various stations at which the samples in question must be tested, is a problem every time. increasingly critical and encourages the search for increasingly practical and faster solutions to optimize this process.
    [003] In particular, it is necessary to interface the systems that transport the samples taken from the patient, wrapped in appropriate containers, with devices that are intended to load the samples themselves onto a laboratory automation system, from the which, through appropriate conveyor belts, the samples are sent to various test stations or modules present in the laboratory.
    [004] An apparatus that loads the biological product containers in a fully automated manner onto the conveyor belts must be used for interfacing.
    [005] In this regard, a known system, particularly used over the last few years for the purpose of transporting biological product containers, consists of a pneumatic mail system, which is otherwise also used in other areas besides the doctor; in particular, it is a mechanism for delivering biological product containers, possibly inserted one by one or in groups in plastic envelopes and wrapped in larger containers or capsules, usually cylindrical in shape, which travels supported by compressed air in a network of tubes to finally reach an arrival station, where the capsule opens and makes the samples available so that they can be taken and possibly transferred, as mentioned, to a laboratory automation system. The system then requires that the capsule, once emptied, close and start the journey again along the network of tubes (to return, for example, to a point where it can be refilled with new biological product containers), and just as a new full capsule reaches the arrival station to be emptied. For this purpose, the Applicant has previously filed a patent (No. PCT/EP2008/066262) describing the fully automated interface of a pneumatic mail system, which transports containers of biological product, with the applicant's laboratory automation system. In the last patent, in order to take the biological product containers from the capsule once opened, by means of automated gripping devices and transfer them to the laboratory automation system, it naturally follows that the biological product containers cannot be inserted in plastic casings; in this way, the transfer process mentioned above is accelerated, compared to known systems that require the presence of an operator who manually opens the casing and extracts the biological product containers inserted into it.
    [006] However, problems in using such an interface device arise.
    [007] In fact, biological product containers move inside capsules, with the intention of moving along the pneumatic mail system, inserted, in turn, in particularly large and heavy containers (carriers), which normally has only a predetermined number of holes available to accommodate the test tubes.
    [008] Thus, the interface with the laboratory automation system implies that both the single biological material containers and the heavy loaders, once filled or emptied from the containers themselves, must be moved by means of gripping devices. The prior patent solution includes the use of two separate containers and/or loader gripping devices, one for those arriving at the pneumatic mail system and one for those to be sent to the system itself.
    [009] Furthermore, such magazines have a polygonal shape due to their construction, and therefore, the apparatus must include guidance devices for the magazines to be properly oriented to be inserted into the capsule.
    [0010] Furthermore, it is essential for the capsule that moves along the pneumatic mail system to always maintain the proper orientation, that is, it must not face up the interface with one of the gripping devices; this particularly applies to the step of unloading the biological product containers, obviously because in that case the gripper would not have the ability to grip the only biological material containers after the capsule has opened because the magazine is upside down.
    [0011] Furthermore, even if the magazine is sized to fit perfectly in the capsule, the biological material containers are inserted into holes obtained inside the magazine; consequently they are however slightly separated and therefore the sealing during transport is not entirely perfect.
    [0012] In general, the presence of the carriers reduces the actual area that can be occupied by the biological material containers inside the capsule, in addition to making it particularly heavy and, therefore, transportable with greater difficulty in the system's compressed air tubes of pneumatic mail.
    [0013] Furthermore, a system like this does not take the processing priority of some samples over others into account, this is a situation that can very often occur in a testing laboratory when some samples need to be tested more urgently than than the others, for example, because they were taken from patients who have just been visited in an emergency department and who therefore require immediate testing and care.
    [0014] As evident, the interface device in question exhibits some problems related to the low efficiency of the operations performed and the high cost to produce the used devices.
    [0015] It is the purpose of the present invention to produce an apparatus that allows inserting a greater number of containers of biological product inside each capsule, ensuring the perfect sealing of the containers themselves inside the capsule and speeding up the loading operations of such containers in the system of laboratory automation, so that, despite the greater number of containers present in it, the capsule is lighter and thus moves more quickly along the tubes of the pneumatic mail system.
    [0016] Another objective of the invention is to ensure a separate handling of samples of biological product to be processed urgently compared to customary samples.
    [0017] A further objective of the invention is to have the ability to disregard the orientation of the capsule arriving from the pneumatic mail system and thus the biological containers contained therein, the sense in which said containers are made available to the system that has the intention to load them inside the laboratory automation system is irrelevant.
    [0018] Another objective, which is not the last, is to make an apparatus that has a high efficiency and low manufacturing cost.
    [0019] This and other objectives are achieved through an interface device as described in claim 1.
    [0020] These and other features of the present invention will be further evident from the following detailed description of an example of the embodiment thereof, shown by way of non-limiting example in the attached drawings, in which: - Figure 1 shows a view in partial perspective section of the interface apparatus according to the invention in the initial situation where the capsule coming from the pneumatic mail system is about to arrive; figure 2 shows, in detail, the containers of biological material held inside the capsule (which is shown in section) by the foam elements; figure 3 allows in detail the opening of the capsule when it reaches the arrival station of the pneumatic mail system; figure 4 shows in detail and in section the device for transferring the containers of biological product in a first step of the operation; figure 5 shows, in detail and in section, the device for transferring the containers of biological product in a second stage of the operation; figure 6 shows, in detail and in section, the device for transferring the containers of biological product in a third and last step of the operation; figure 7 shows, in perspective view, one of the two recruitment devices in action, all the rest having been removed; figure 8 again shows a detail of the device for transferring containers of biological product in a second mode and in a first stage of operation; - figure 9 shows the same detail as figure 8 in a second stage of operation.
    [0021] An interface apparatus 1 connects a pneumatic mail system 2 (of which only the edge portion of the duct is shown), which transports biological product containers 3 taken directly from patients in a hospital department to a feeding system from biological product containers to a laboratory automation system 4, which transports the containers themselves to different test stations or modules possibly connected to them.
    [0022] The biological product containers 3, e.g. test tubes, move inside a capsule 5, which has an opening outer shell 6 and an inner chamber 7, preferably cylindrical and containing foam elements 8a and 8b , with a very elastic module, joined at the two edges of the inner chamber, where two flanges that close flanges are found, an upper flange 9a and a lower flange 9b, which act as a closure plug for the inner chamber 7.
    [0023] A device 11 for transferring the test tubes 3 contained within the capsule 5 is present under the arrival station 10, which is open at the base of the pneumatic courier system 2. This transfer device 11 comprises a piston 12 which moves vertically, adjusted by start and end limit impediments, to engage the lower flange 9b of the inner chamber of the capsule 5, and a sliding tube 13 (shown in section in all figures), preferably cylindrical and opening at both edges top and bottom, which pneumatically leads for the purposes that will be better described below.
    [0024] The lower end of the slide tube rests on a surface 14 that has three different cavities, a central cavity 15 of dimensions so as to allow the passage of the flange 9b and the foam element 8b of the capsule 5 and two lateral cavities 16a and 16b , possibly irregular in shape, but with a length equal to at least the diameter of the sliding tube 13.
    [0025] Each of the two side cavities is connected to a compartment 17a and 17b below, particularly a hopper, in which a recruitment device 18a, 18b is accommodated, entirely similar to that described in another patent by the applicant (document no. PCT/ EP2009/050597).
    [0026] Similar to what was described in the last patent, the recruitment devices 18a and 18b are intended, by means of a system of mobile collectors 19 that work on fixed collectors 20, to load test tubes into a device. positioning test tube 21, comprising one or more bands, so as to have the ability to accommodate test tubes of different diameters.
    [0027] The positioning device 21, by making the test tubes slide along such tracks, makes them available to a gripping device 22 that grips the test tubes and transfers them to the transport devices positioned on a automatic conveyor 23 of a laboratory automation system 4, i.e. a conveyor belt from which the test tubes are then transferred to the various test stations or modules present in the laboratory.
    [0028] The operation is as follows: after removing a series of biological material, for example, from a certain number of patients in a hospital department, an operator manually loads randomly into a capsule 5 (opening it on the side from one of the flanges 9a and 9b and then closing it) a number of test tubes 3 containing the collected biological material; such test tubes 3 were duly equipped, beforehand, with bar codes to ensure the sample-patient biological association, so that later the automation system, by means of bar code reading devices of the test tube 3, already know how to send each of the test tubes through a communication protocol with the Laboratory Information System (LIS), towards the appropriate test modules that each sample requires. The application of the barcode on each of the test tubes takes place by means of a specific automatic test tube marking apparatus, for example, that of patent no. PCT/EP2009/058360 by this Applicant.
    [0029] In the capsule 5, the test tubes 3 are sealingly retained by the foam elements 8a and 8b glued to the flanges 9a and 9b, as shown in figure 2; this occurs both for a minimal number of inserted test tubes 3, because even in an empty capsule configuration 5 the foam elements 8a and 8b almost touch (and therefore their size is calibrated so as to possibly retain even just one test tube sealed) or in a configuration where several dozen test tubes are inserted into the capsule 5.
    [0030] In general, the entire transport system can be adapted to different sizes of the capsule 5 and the foam elements 8a and 8b within the capsules.
    [0031] During transport, in the event of a disaster in which one of the test tubes 3 must undergo a shock and both open and break, the spilled biological material is absorbed by the foam elements, without being dispersed outside the capsule 5 The risk of contamination is therefore minimal.
    [0032] The capsule 5 is thus sent to the tube network of the pneumatic mail system 2 to reach near the arrival station 10, which is opened underneath the mail system 2 (figure 1).
    [0033] After the capsule 5 reaches the arrival station 10, the lower part of the outer shell 6 of the capsule 5 itself is opened automatically by a mechanical system (figure 3). At this time, the piston 12 is pneumatically lifted (figure 4) from the base through the central cavity 15 of the surface 14, together with the slide tube 13, which in the rest position is located in the central cavity 15 itself, and engages the lower flange 9b of the inner chamber 7 of the capsule 5 then moves downwardly and consequently drags the lower flange 9b, together with the lower foam element 8b glued thereto.
    [0034] The movement of piston 12, both upward and downward, is adjusted by start and end travel prevention sensors, preferably sensors that can engage an integral slider with the piston, recognizing when the piston itself reaches the lower and upper point of its vertical movement, respectively.
    [0035] When the piston 12 returns to the lower position (situation shown in figure 5), the upper part of the lower foam element 8b is precisely level with the surface 14 and the test tubes 3 are thereby accommodated horizontally within the sliding tube 13, at that time the tube 13 moves pneumatically into one of the two lateral cavities 16a, 16b into which it lets the test tubes 3 fall (figure 6).
    [0036] One of the most innovative aspects of the invention is the possibility of separating the transfer of one of the test tubes into two separate cavities, taking into account whether the test tubes must be processed in a customary or urgent way. It is, in all cases, possible that only one cavity and thus only one hopper and only one recruitment device is present.
    [0037] Obviously, the transfer of test tubes inside either hopper 17a or 17b is automatically handled by the interface apparatus 1 itself; in fact, at the moment when the test tubes 3 are manually loaded by the operator inside the capsule 5, the Laboratory Information System contains the information regarding whether the test tube is urgent or not being such test tubes 3 already equipped with bar codes being registered in the system. As a consequence of this, when the slide tube 13 comes into action, it is automatically sent to change to either one of the side cavities 16a, 16b.
    [0038] It is evident that this solution implies that all test tubes 3 moving in the same capsule 5 are of the same type, either only customary type or only urgent type; however, an additional modality (not described in the attached figures) may require customary and urgent test tubes 5 to be inserted into the same capsule 5, separated by an additional central foam element; in this case, the piston 12 must first move the first group of test tubes that it encounters, with the cap open, downwardly and the sliding tube 13 must move them to one of the lateral cavities; subsequently, the piston 12 withdraws the central foam element 8c downwardly, possibly also glued to an additional central flange 9c, and the sliding tube 13 moves the other group of test tubes, which were initially positioned on top of the capsule 5, to the other side cavity.
    [0039] A second mode (shown in Figures 8 and 9) of the transfer device 11 comprises a tube 130, which no longer slides horizontally over the other of the two side cavities 16a, 16b, but is instead swiveling substantially by 135 ° either in one or the other direction with respect to the rest direction, to discharge the test tubes 3 into the cavity 16a or 16b, and thus into the respective hopper 17a or 17b (figure 9), from the top.
    [0040] The lower flange 9b is engaged during the upward movement of the piston 12 (advantageously by means of a suction cap 120) and is thereby pushed downwardly together with the lower foam element 8b and the tubes. test 3.
    [0041] Subsequently, the suction cap 120 is disengaged from the lower flange 9b (figure 8) and the test tubes 3 are discharged.
    [0042] In order to make the rotating tube 130 discharge the test tubes inside both one and the other cavity, it is sufficient to reverse the direction of rotation of the motor used to drive the tube 130.
    [0043] Two partitions in the shape of arc of circumference 131a, 131b are present to prevent the test tubes 3 from escaping during the rotation of tube 130. Obviously, such partitions are interrupted at the edge part by the rotational movement of tube 130 to allow the unloading of test tubes 4 into cavity 16a, 16b.
    [0044] This second mode differs from the previous one in that the lower flange 9b and consequently the lower foam element 8b glued to it, remains integral with the walls of the swivel tube 130, thereby turning with it (figure 9).
    [0045] In all cases, the test tubes alternatively fall into either one or the other of the two side cavities 16a, 16b, and thus into the respective hopper 17a, 17b, and with such a fall it operates a or the other of the two recruiting devices 18a, 18b (obviously the one of the hopper into which the test tubes fell) with the intention of supplying test tubes to the positioning device 21, while the other remains stationary.
    [0046] Once the transfer operation is complete, i.e. when the capsule 5 is emptied, the piston 12 rises upwards, pushing with it the lower flange 9b still engaged thereto and the lower foam element 8b glued to the flange itself.
    [0047] The lower flange 9b and the lower foam element 8b thereby return to their initial position in the capsule 5; at this time, the piston 12 is disengaged from the lower flange 8b, the piston 12 lowers downwardly again, and at the same time the capsule 5 closes and starts the journey again, from the arrival station 10, to the tube network. of pneumatic mail system 2, to return, for example, to a point where it can be reopened again by an operator and filled with new samples.
    [0048] In this way, the arrival station 10 is ready to accommodate a possible new full capsule.
    [0049] Apparatus 1 can always load priority of test tubes to be processed urgently over those to be processed in a customary way.
    [0050] In fact, if the situation occurs where the recruitment device 18a dedicated (in the illustrated embodiment) to the customary test tubes is loading test tubes onto the positioning device 21, but at the same time the transfer device 11 is unloading new test tubes to be urgently processed into the hopper 17b, the recruiting device 18a immediately locks up giving priority to the recruiting device 18b which is to load urgent samples. Once all the test tubes have fallen into the hopper and the respective recruitment device has started, the test tubes are lifted by the mobile collector slide system 19 over the fixed collectors 20 (figure 7), similarly to that described in patent no. PCT/EP2009/050597: it is therefore valid to note that the orientation with which the test tubes 3 were originally loaded by the operator into the capsule 5 is not relevant at all. In fact, since the test tube 3 falls and is then lifted by the recruitment device, considering the test tube itself lying in the mobile collectors 19 of the recruitment device, it is absolutely indifferent whether it has, in front view, the lid facing both left and right. In fact, in any case, once it reaches the top of the recruiting device it slides onto the positioning device 21, performing a 90° rotation and remaining suspended and resting on the band of the positioning device 21 by means of of the cap, extending in relation to the side body of the test tube 3.
    [0051] In addition, the recruitment device as described in the above-mentioned patent in PCT/EP2009/050597 has already been studied in relation to loading test tubes 3 thrown in large quantities into the hopper: the configuration can thus be reapplied for the purposes of the present invention.
    [0052] The described modality implies that the test tubes 3 used all have the same diameter; in all cases, the apparatus 1 can also be capable of handling test tubes of different diameters. In that case, the positioning device 21 comprises (solution not shown in the attached figures) a pair of strips of different widths adapted for positioning test tubes of different diameters. In particular, with almost all test tubes containing biological products present on the market and used in testing laboratories of the 13 mm diameter and 16 mm diameter type, a range adapted to position 13 mm test tubes. diameter and a range adapted to position 16 mm diameter test tubes are required.
    [0053] In particular, the 16 mm diameter test tubes, which initially fall over the strip with the intention of positioning only the 13 mm test tubes, will remain in a lying position because they are wider than the width of such a band, and are thereby transported, by means of a diverter, over the appropriate band adapted to position test tubes of different diameters.
    [0054] It is valid to specify that in all cases the device described 21 can be adapted to position test tubes of any diameter, simply by properly sizing the strips.
    [0055] Therefore, the test tubes 3 divided, according to the case, over the two bands, reach a suitable loading area where they are queued waiting to be grabbed by the gripping device 22 and unloaded onto the conveyor 23 of the laboratory automation system 4, from where they will be transported to additional processing or test modules that interface with the conveyor itself.
    [0056] Additionally, it is worth noting that the test tubes existing on the market and used in testing laboratories, in addition to having different diameters can also have different heights and so, appropriately in the above mentioned loading area there must be a device for lifting 24 for the purpose of lifting the test tubes so that the base of the test tube is always positioned at the same height, regardless of the height of the test tube itself. The need to have such a lifting device 24 is related to the fact that the gripping device 22 comprises a pneumatically actuated mechanical arm, which can grip the test tubes and reach all the necessary points to perform the required operations, but it can , in all cases, always reach only the same height during all vertical movements.
    [0057] In all cases, for a detailed description of all the parts that constitute the recruitment device 18a, 18b, the positioning 21 and the test tube gripping device 22, reference is made as mentioned in patent no. PCT/EP2009/050597 by the Applicant.
    [0058] The filling procedure of the capsules 5 in the apparatus 1 itself can be considerably accelerated if the apparatus 1 has a connection with two different conduits of the pneumatic mail system 2, one intended to accommodate the capsules 5 coming directly from the area of the trace and thus containing the test tubes 3, and the other with the intention for the subsequent restart of the emptied capsules 5, which must return to the loading point to then be refilled. It is rather evident that a connection with only one conduit implies that each time a capsule 5 arrives and unloads the test tubes 2 into the interface apparatus 1, it must wait for the capsule 5 itself to leave the conduit free, before have the ability to accommodate the capsule itself. If, instead, at the end of the emptying operation the capsule 5 is diverted over a separate return duct, obviously the next capsule can reach the interface apparatus 1 more quickly, and the loading speed of the test tube 3 over the transporter 23 will also increase as a consequence.
    [0059] The innovative aspect of the invention is thus constituted in that, in relation to the interface device, with a pneumatic mail system described in patent no. PCT/EP2008/066262, a single capsule contains a greater number of tubes test although being, in all cases, lighter and traveling more quickly inside the tubes of the mailer, given the absence of magazines inside.
    [0060] In addition, the sealing of the test tubes in the capsule is absolutely perfect due to the action of the foam elements, both in the case where the test tubes inserted inside the capsule are few units and if there are several dozen of them because the foam elements have a very high elastic modulus and can be compressed considerably. Furthermore, in case of rupture or spillage of biological material from one of the test tubes, the contamination is absorbed by the foam element itself without being dispersed outside the capsule.
    [0061] In addition, the orientation that the capsule presents to the interface device with the loading system is irrelevant because in all cases the action of the piston which consists of coupling and dragging one of the two flanges and the foam edge connected with the even regardless of which the two edges of the inner chamber of the capsule are presented in contact with the piston; instead, in the previous solutions, it is important to ensure that the capsule reaches the interface point with the proper orientation to prevent it from opening it to present the base side instead of the test tube side of the magazine.
    [0062] Above all, the interface apparatus is developed to allow, through the presence of two hoppers and two separate recruitment devices in which the test tubes are alternatively emptied, the simultaneous handling and the respective load in the automation system of laboratory of test tubes containing biological products to be tested on a customary or urgent basis ensuring the priority of loading the latter at the same time.
    [0063] It should additionally be considered the simplification of the purpose of the test tube loading process on the conveyor of the laboratory automation system because there is only one gripping device that handles such a process and no longer a pair of gripping devices as in the solutions above.
    [0064] It has practically been seen that the device as described can achieve the predetermined goals ensuring faster and more efficient loading of test tubes on the laboratory automation system conveyor relative to the known interface systems of a pneumatic courier system with a test tube feeding system for a laboratory automation system.
    [0065] In addition, the apparatus is also simplified from a structural point of view allowing a reduction in assembly and maintenance costs.
    [0066] The invention thus described is susceptible to many changes and variants, all comprised within the scope of the inventive concept.
    [0067] In practice, the materials used as well as the formats and size can be any, according to the needs.
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    Claims (7)
    [0001]
    1. Interface apparatus (1) between a pneumatic mail system (2) and a laboratory automation system (4), comprising a transfer device (11) of biological product containers (3) arriving from the delivery system. pneumatic mail (2) inside the capsules (5) comprising an inner chamber (7), characterized in that said transfer device (11) comprises a surface (14) for said capsules (5) with two cavities, a piston (12 ), transfer means and two additional recruitment devices (18a, 18b), said interface apparatus (1) comprising said capsules (5) arriving from said pneumatic mail system (2), each one of said capsules (5) comprising an upper flange (9a) and a lower flange (9b) functioning as a closure cap suitable for passing an inner chamber (7) of said capsule (5) from a closed position, suitable for retaining of sealing the said biological product containers (3) inside the inner chamber (7) of the capsule (5), to an open position, suitable for opening said inner chamber (7) of the capsule (5) vertically moving the piston of said transfer device (11) to engage said lower flange (9b) and carrying said lower flange (9b) to a lower position of said piston (12) where the transfer means (13, 130) of said transfer device (11) are suitable for transferring the said biological product containers (3) to one of two selected cavities (16a, 16b) of said surface (14) according to information provided by a laboratory information system of said laboratory automation system (4), and each of said at least two cavities (16a, 16b) of said surface (14) is connected to one of said recruitment devices (18a, 18b) suitable for supplying said biological product containers (3) to said automation system of laboratory (4).
    [0002]
    Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that said transfer means (13, 130) comprising a tube (13) are in said lower position of said piston (12) where said biological product containers (3) are flush with said surface (14) and said tube (13) which slides horizontally between said at least two cavities (16a, 16b) of said surface (14).
    [0003]
    Apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that the lower end of the tube (13) rests on the surface (14) whose surface (14) comprises three cavities, a central cavity (15) suitably adjusted to allow the passage of the lower flange (9b) and said two cavities (16a, 16b) being lateral and having a possibly irregular shape, but with a width at least equal to the diameter of the tube (13).
    [0004]
    Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that said transfer means (13, 130) of the transfer device (11) comprise a swivel tube (130) suitable for integrally mounting said lower flange (9b) of said capsule (5) for discharging the biological product containers (3) from the top of the capsule (5) in a selected one of said at least two different (16a, 16b) from said surface (14).
    [0005]
    Apparatus according to claim 4, characterized in that it comprises a motor means adapted to reverse the direction of rotation of the rotatable tube (130).
    [0006]
    Apparatus according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the rotatable tube (130) is rotational essentially by 135° in one or the other direction with respect to a vertical rest direction.
    [0007]
    Apparatus according to any one of claims 4 to 6, characterized in that it includes two partitions in the form of an arc of circumference (131a, 131b) to prevent the biological product containers (3) from escaping during rotation of the rotatable tube (13).
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