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Method for treating objects

  • US 20020111743A1
  • Filed: 10/23/2001
  • Published: 08/15/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a method for treating cytological or histological specimens in an automatic stainer, the specimens being delivered on object carriers and in object carrier magazines by means of a transport device to various processing stations, inserted therein, and treated in accordance with a definable treatment program, and said transport device being capable, during execution of said treatment program, of moving further objects or object carriers to other processing stations so that a parallel processing or treatment is possible in various processing stations, the improvement comprising the step of:

  • executing an optimized automatic program sequence according to which identically operating processing stations are defined as backup stations and are correspondingly utilized if a required processing station is occupied.

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