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  • G01F11/00—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
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  • G01F11/00—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
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  • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
  • G01F13/00—Apparatus for measuring by volume and delivering fluids or fluent solid materials, not provided for in the preceding groups
  • G01F13/001—Apparatus for measuring by volume and delivering fluids or fluent solid materials, not provided for in the preceding groups for fluent solid material
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01G—WEIGHING
  • G01G13/00—Weighing apparatus with automatic feed or discharge for weighing-out batches of material
  • G01G13/02—Means for automatically loading weigh pans or other receptacles, e.g. disposable containers, under control of the weighing mechanism
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  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
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  • G01N2035/00792—Type of components bearing the codes, other than sample carriers
  • G01N2035/00811—Type of components bearing the codes, other than sample carriers consumable or exchangeable components other than sample carriers, e.g. detectors, flow cells

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a metering device with a change device for metering units or functional units.
• Dosing devices for powdered or paste-like dosage material are used in particular for dosing small quantities with high precision in small target vessels use. Frequently, such target vessels are placed on a balance in order to weigh the amount of metered product discharged from the metering device, so that this can subsequently be further processed as intended.
• the dosing material is located, for example, in a dosing unit, which essentially has a removal vessel and a dosing head.
• a metering device such as a slider is arranged, which releases an outlet opening, as soon as it is actuated. By means of the outlet opening connected to the removal vessel, the dosage material can subsequently flow into a target vessel arranged below the outlet opening.
• the slider is preferably coupled to a separate from the metering drive device.
• dosing devices of the aforementioned type are also used for producing mixtures of several individual substances.
• a changing device is present, by means of which the individual metering units can be used with the individual substances automatically in the metering device, or can be removed from this.
• EP 1 947 427 A1 discloses a metering device in which a plurality of metering units are arranged in a holder.
• a charging device for example an industrial robot
• the metering units can be conveyed between the holder and the receiving device of the metering device.
• a serious disadvantage of this solution is due to the arrangement of individual separate modules, the large area requirement of the entire system, which is also referred to as a footprint.
• the space requirement of a device used therein plays a key role, since many of these cabins are installed in users and therefore a limited available Surface is given.
• the feeder and the holder can be expected.
• the first embodiment has a linearly displaceable holder for a plurality of metering units.
• the second embodiment has a ring-shaped holder, which is arranged rotatably about the metering device.
• the individual dosing units are moved according to their place number in succession, coupled with the drive device and dosed the predetermined amounts of substance according to the recipe in a target vessel.
• the changing device is arranged at a low height above the ground and therefore the area below the changing device can not be used.
• the distance of the outlet opening of a dosing unit to the filling opening of a target vessel located on the weighing pan of the weighing cell should be as small as possible. This is particularly important in the handling of toxic or highly reactive substances of high importance.
• even a part of the dosing unit protrudes with its arranged at the lower end
• the object of the present invention is to provide a metering device whose area requirement, or whose space to be kept free is small and in which a rapid change and rapid loading of dosing units or functional units is possible.
• a dosing device has a base frame, at least one receiving device for receiving any dosing unit or functional unit that can be inserted into the receiving device and at least one
• a holder is arranged in an upper horizontal plane of the base frame and connected to the same.
• the holder has at least one holding station for a dosing unit or functional unit.
• a load cell is further arranged, which has a load receptor for receiving a target vessel.
• the metering device includes a changing device, by means of which the receiving device is horizontally displaceable relative to the base frame.
• a dosing unit or functional unit can be removed from the holding station by means of the receiving device and accommodated in the receiving device, or removed from the receiving device and accommodated in the holding station.
• the receiving device together with the drive device relative to the base frame, vertically to the filling opening of a target vessel placed on the load receiver, or displaceable from the filling opening of the target vessel to the holding station.
• the changing device thus has at least one horizontal linear guide as a connecting element between the receiving device and the drive device and a vertical linear guide between the unit of drive device and receiving device and the base frame.
• These also include a drive unit for each linear guide and a controller for controlling the drive units.
• the horizontal movements primarily serve the transfer operation of the dosing unit or functional unit between the receiving device and the holding station. However, this does not rule out that the horizontal movement can also serve for subordinate needs, for example the orientation of the dosing unit or functional unit to the target vessel.
• the vertical movements primarily serve to transport the dosing unit or functional unit from the holding station to the target vessel and back again.
• the holder has at least two holding positions and is designed to be linearly displaceable or rotatable relative to the base frame.
• the position of each stopping place is stored in an electronic storage unit of the metering device, so that an operating program executable in a processor module of the metering device finds the desired stopping position and can rotate to a transfer point described below.
• data of the dosing unit used in the holding station can also be stored in this memory unit.
• an electronic reading device for example an RFID reader
• the dosing unit has an identification feature, for example an RFID tag
• the acquisition of the data of each dosing unit or functional unit can also take place automatically when the holder is fitted with dosing units.
• data may be the technical data of the dosing unit, such as the start-up date, the number of doses, the date of the last dose and the like. Further data may relate to the substance filled in the dosing unit, for example its type and composition, its expiry date, its determined parameters relating to the fluidity of the substance and the like.
• the functional units may also have an RFID memory chip on which technical data for the function are stored.
• the holder can be equipped from only one direction and it is only a read-write device necessary to capture the data of all RFID memory chips. Furthermore, as soon as the receiving device has left the upper level, each dosing unit or functional unit located in the holder can be guided past the read / write device at any time and its data can be read or changed.
• the at least one holding place has at least two holding grooves and the receiving device has at least two bearers.
• suitable support points and guide rails which are suitable for the support grooves are formed on the dosing unit or functional unit with the supports.
• the retaining grooves, Support points, support and guide rails extend in their longitudinal direction preferably parallel to each other and parallel to the horizontal movement of the changing device.
• the carriers of the receiving device preferably engage in the holding station. This is possible if the dosing unit or functional unit is arranged between a vertically arranged inner and outer plane pair, wherein each plane of the inner plane pair has at least one support point and each plane of the outer pair of planes at least one guide rail.
• the equipping of the at least one holding place with a dosing unit or functional unit can be done manually. If, however, the metering device according to the invention is integrated, for example, in a larger system, it can be useful to carry out the loading of the holding station or the holder by means of a charging device. For this purpose is at the
• Dosing or functional unit formed at least one gripper cup.
• the charging device for example an industrial robot, has a gripper which can engage in the gripper coupling point, so that the metering unit or functional unit can be positively and / or positively connected to the charging device.
• the charging device is preferably arranged independently of the metering device. It makes sense to equip the holding station with a dosing unit or functional unit by means of a directed towards the base frame, horizontal movement, since no components of the dosing hinder this direction.
• the holding space or the retaining grooves must be designed so that a feed from this direction, so to speak "from the front.”
• the dosing unit or functional unit is also introduced by the changing device from this direction in the at least one holding place to the dosing or Accordingly, the dosing device is received in the receiving device in a horizontal movement directed away from the base frame Assembly is the independent of the sacredvorhacht movable mount of great advantage.
• the holder can be equipped from one direction only.
• a force-releasable latching element can be arranged between at least one holding groove and a guide rail and / or between at least one carrier and a support point.
• Such latching elements may be spring-loaded ball detents, spring tongues and the like more, or even magnetic pairs.
• the at least one support groove and / or support point may have a recess extending orthogonally to its longitudinal axis and substantially in the vertical direction and at the at least one guide rail and / or on the support, orthogonal to its longitudinal axis and substantially be formed in the vertical direction extending projection.
• a vertical unlocking movement is necessary to disconnect the metering device from the receiving device and / or from the at least one stopping place. Accordingly, a vertical settling movement is required for inserting the dosing unit or functional unit into the receiving device and / or in the at least one holding station.
• the present inventive metering device with a changing device now allows the use of a windscreen surrounding the load receptor and connected to the base frame. This can be adapted to the target vessels used. Accordingly, its internal volume can be kept very small. Since the transfer of the dosing unit or functional unit from the holder to the target vessel takes place essentially in the vertical direction, the draft shield is preferably at least partially open in the direction of the upper horizontal plane and consequently upwards.
• a suitable windscreen cover may be arranged in a first embodiment on the receiving device.
• This windscreen cover is provided with at least one opening for an outlet formed on the dosing unit or functional unit.
• its tool for example a temperature sensor or an agitator, can also pass through the opening in the case of a functional unit, as described above.
• the windshield cover can also be arranged on the dosing unit or functional unit. Also by means of this open top windshield is closed.
• the entire windscreen can be formed on the dosing and completely cover the target vessel and the loader during dosing.
• the contour of the opening of the partially upwardly open draft shield is adapted to that cross section of the dosing unit, which is arranged during a dosing in this opening. As a result, an air exchange between the windscreen interior and the environment is largely prevented.
• a cleaning device for cleaning the dosing units and functional units is arranged on the base frame.
• this can be arranged in the holder or in an intermediate position.
• the arrangement in the region of the holder has the advantage that by means of a displacement or rotation of the holder relative to the base frame, the holding position can reach the region of the cleaning device.
• a cleaning device may be a stripping device and / or a suction device and / or a washing station.
• the holder may have not only one, but a plurality of in a horizontal plane and linearly juxtaposed holding stations for dosing units and functional units.
• Each stop is relative to the base frame and a defined, fixed to the base frame transfer point is arranged linearly horizontally displaceable.
• the changing device is designed in such a way that the receiving device receives the respective dosing unit or functional unit at this transfer point from its holding station or discharges it to it.
• the holder may be useful for the holder to have a plurality of holding stations for dosing units arranged in a horizontal plane and annularly next to one another.
• This holder is rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation relative to the base frame. As a result, each stop can be moved to a defined, fixed to the base frame transfer point.
• at least one intermediate holder can be arranged in at least one horizontal intermediate plane. So that dosing units or functional units can be conveyed from the upper level into the lower level, a passage position for the receiving device should be formed on the at least one intermediate holder. This passage position can therefore have no stopping place.
• a powdery, pasty or liquid substance can be filled.
• the dosing unit but also a
• Have supply line which is connected to a storage vessel and optionally with a pump.
• a functional unit may be a titrator unit, a pumping unit, a pipetting unit, a unit with pipelines and fittings, a container unit, a sensor unit or an adapter for accommodating one of these units or further units.
• agitators, grinders or heating and / or cooling units can be used as functional units. Characterized in that it can be selected from a whole range of different usable functional units, the metering device is not only for metering of powdered or pasty Dosiergut and liquids used, but can be further processed for further processing of the dosage in a kind of mini lab with the force measuring continuously detectable weight values become.
• Figure 1 is a schematic, three-dimensional view of a metering device with a changing device, with a base frame, with a rotatably mounted on the base frame, annular support, with a drive device and a receiving device, which by the Changing device are connected to the base frame and arranged on the base frame load cell with a load receptor and twelve inserted into the holder metering units;
• Figure 2 shows the schematic, three-dimensional representation of the metering device of Figure 1, wherein the load receptor and a on the
• Load receiver mounted target vessel is enclosed with a windshield and the receiving device and the dosing unit inserted therein is located in an intermediate position between the holder and the load cell;
• Figure 3 is essentially the schematic, three-dimensional representation of
• Dosing device of Figures 1 and 2 wherein on the base frame between the holder and the target vessel additionally an intermediate holder is arranged and the receiving device and the dosing unit inserted therein is located directly above the target vessel;
• Figure 4 is a schematic, three-dimensional view of a metering device with a changing device, with a base frame, with a linearly displaceably guided on the base frame holder, with a drive device and a receiving device, which are connected by the changing device to the base frame and a on
• Base frame arranged load cell with a load receptor and with three metering units and two functional units, which are inserted into the holder;
• FIG. 5A shows a three-dimensional detail view of a holding station of the holder from the preceding FIGS. 1 to 3;
• FIG. 5B shows a three-dimensional detail view of the dosing head of FIGS. 3 and 4 located above the target vessel, with a wind protection cover additionally being arranged on the receiving device and further a portion of a gripper of a feeder is indicated;
• FIG. 6 shows a metering unit used in the holding space of a holder, in the
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic, three-dimensional representation of a
• the metering device 100 with a changing device 110.
• the metering device 100 has a base frame 101.
• an annular support 120 rotatably mounted about its vertical axis of rotation is arranged and connected to the base frame 101.
• the holder 120 has a total of twelve holding stations 121, which each with one
• Dosing unit 140 are equipped. Of course, not all stops must be equipped 121 to ensure proper operation of the metering device 100. Preferably, the position of each holding station 121 is stored in an electronic storage unit, not shown, so that an executable in a processor module of the metering device 100 operating program finds the desired stopping place 121 and can rotate to a transfer point 123. Of course, data of the dosing unit 140 used in the holding station 121 can also be stored in this memory unit.
• an electronic reading device for example an RFID reader
• the dosing unit 140 has an identification feature, for example an RFID tag
• the acquisition of the data of each dosing unit 140 can also take place automatically when the holder 120 is equipped with dosing units 140 .
• data may be the technical data of the dosing unit 140, such as the start-up date, the number of doses, the date of the last dosage and the like. Further data may relate to the substance filled in the dosing unit 140, for example its type and composition, its expiry date, its determined parameters relating to the fluidity of the substance and the like.
• the holding stations 121 can also be equipped with one of the functional units disclosed in EP 1 959 243 A1. These can also have an RFID memory chip on which technical data for the function of the functional units are stored. If necessary, even usage instructions or even Programmnnnnodule retrievable from this memory chip, which influence and / or control individual process steps of the metering device 100.
• the independently movable holder 120 is of great advantage. Thus, during dosing, the holder 120 can be populated from only one direction and only one read / write device is necessary in order to acquire the data of all RFID memory chips.
• a housing 102 is formed, which is shown in partial section to show a disposed inside the housing 102 load cell 130.
• a load receiver 131 which is arranged in the operating position of the metering device 100 above the housing 102, is connected to the load cell 130 by means of a power transmission element 133 guided through the housing 102.
• a target vessel 132 is placed on the load receiver 131 .
• a vertical linear guide 111 of the changing device 110 can be seen.
• a drive device 103 and a just recognizable receiving device 104 is guided vertically displaceable.
• the drive device 103 can be coupled to a dosing unit, not shown in FIG. 1, which is arranged in the dosing unit 140.
• the metering device releases an outlet opening of the metering unit 140 as soon as it is coupled to the drive device 103 and is actuated by the latter.
• the dosing material bunkered in the dosing unit 140 can subsequently flow into a target vessel 132 arranged below the outlet opening.
• the holding station 121 located in the transfer station 123 is equipped with a metering unit 140. Furthermore, it can be seen in FIG. 1 that the changing device 110 is ready to transfer a dosing device 140 to the receiving device 104, since the receiving device 104 engages with its carrier 105 on the dosing unit.
• the exact structure of the receiving device 104 and the changing device 110 will be described in more detail below with reference to FIG.
• the arrangement of the guide rails, support points, support and mounting grooves, which a enable smooth transfer, will be described below with reference to Figure 6, the viewing plane AA is shown in Figure 1.
• FIG. 2 again shows the metering device 100 known from FIG. All elements which have already been described in FIG. 1 have the same reference numerals.
• the changing device 110 with its two linear guides 111, 112 is better visible.
• the horizontal linear guide 112 of the changing device 110 is between the driving device
• the recording device 103 and the receiving device 104 is arranged.
• each linear guide 111, 112 associated with a drive unit, not shown, which can be controlled by means of a control, also not shown.
• the controller may be part of the changing device 110. However, it may be more advantageous if the control of the drive units is taken over directly by the control of the metering device 100 or by a control system independent of the metering device 100.
• the receiving device 104 is fork-shaped and has four horizontally extending support 105, each with a vertically extending projection 106 on.
• the carrier 105 engage in formed on the dosing unit 140 support points 143 a. Because of the dosing unit 140 used only two carriers 105 are visible.
• the projections 106 engage in recesses 141 formed on the dosing unit 140 and thereby prevent the dosing unit 140 from falling out of the receiving device 104 during transport by means of the exchanging device 110.
• a vertical, short-stroke movement of the receiving device 104 must take place relative to the dosing unit 140.
• the transfer of the dosing unit described in FIG. 1 is already completed in FIG. 2 and the dosing unit 140 is on the way to the target vessel 132, the first arrow 201 marking the path already covered and the second arrow 202 representing the path still to be covered.
• the first arrow 201 has a horizontal portion and a vertical portion. The horizontal section indicates that the dosing unit 140 has been pushed out of the holding station 121 by means of a horizontal movement directed away from the base frame 101.
• the second arrow 202 also has a horizontal section. With this horizontal movement, the metering device 140 is moved towards the drive device 103 until the metering unit 140, or its metering element, can be coupled to the drive device 103. In addition, with this movement, the metering unit 140, or its outlet opening, is aligned with the filling opening of the target vessel 132. In order for the target vessel 132 or the load receiver 131 to be protected from air turbulences which may influence the weighing signal, an upwardly open windscreen 203 is fixed to the housing 102.
• FIG. 3 also essentially shows the metering device 300 shown schematically in FIGS. 1 and 2. Identical elements which have already been described in FIGS. 1 and 2 also have the same reference numerals here.
• the essential difference from the figures described above is that between the holder 120 and the housing 102, an intermediate support 320 is disposed in a horizontal intermediate plane. Like the holder 120, the intermediate holder 320 is rotatably mounted about a vertical axis of rotation connected to the base frame 101.
• the intermediate support 320 with its stopping places 321 is almost identical to the holder 120 configured.
• the essential difference to the holder 120 is that a passage position 322 is formed instead of a holding place 321.
• FIG. 3 further shows the metering device 300 during a metering process.
• the drive device 103, the receiving device 104 and the dosing unit 140 accommodated in the receiving device 104 are located in the lower plane of the base frame 101, just above the filling opening of the target vessel 132.
• the dosing device of the dosing unit 140 is coupled to a drive shaft 107 of the drive device 103. As soon as the drive shaft 107 drives the metering device, the outlet opening of the metering unit 140 is released and metered material is discharged from the metering unit 140 into the target vessel 132.
• the return of the dosing unit 140 takes place in the holding station 121, 321 assigned to it in the same way as has been indicated in FIG. 2 by means of the arrows 201 and 201, but logically in the opposite direction.
• a collecting tray 390 is further schematically shown, which is arranged below the intermediate support 320 on the base frame 101.
• the drip tray 390 is annular and serves to catch dirt, such as substance particles, which could be present in the region of the outlet opening of the metering units 140.
• the catch tray 390 may be even more suitably formed, for example, by having a slidable segment to cover the passage position 322 as well.
• the collecting tray 390 can be provided with a closed housing, so that the metering units 140 used in the holding stations 121, 321 are arranged completely within this housing.
• the interior of such a housing could be continuously gassed with an inert gas to protect the stored in the metering units 140 substances from environmental influences.
• FIG. 4 shows a schematic, three-dimensional representation of a metering device 400. All the elements which have already been described in FIGS. 1 to 4 have the same reference numerals.
• the base frame 401 differs slightly from the base frame of the examples described above. This is because the metering device 400 has a holder 420, which is horizontally linearly displaceable and guided linearly displaceably to the base frame 401 by means of a longitudinal guide 424.
• the holding stations 121 formed on the holder 420 correspond in their design to the holding stations described above.
• the dosing device 400 is equipped with three metering units 140 and two functional units 440, 441.
• the first functional unit 440 is a pump unit, by means of which a liquid from a separate storage vessel 442 can be pumped via a supply line 443 into the target vessel 132. If the interior of the storage vessel 442 is under a gas overpressure, the functional unit 440 may also have only one microvalve, since the liquid is transported by the gas overpressure from the storage vessel to the microvalve.
• the second functional unit 441 is a stirrer, by means of which, for example, a powder metered out of the metering units 140 can be stirred with the liquid metered in by the pump unit.
• the dosing device 400 may comprise a cleaning device 450, shown very schematically, which may be arranged on the base frame 401.
• a cleaning device 450 shown very schematically, which may be arranged on the base frame 401.
• Functional unit 440, 441 first transported back to their stopping place 121 and the stopping place 121 are then moved to the cleaning device 450. Arrangements are also possible, however, in which the cleaning device 450 is traversed to its stopping place 121 during the return path of a dosing unit 140 or functional unit 440, 441.
• the cleaning device 450 may, of course, include various add-on modules, such as an aspirator for powder-contaminated metering units 140 and / or a contaminated functional unit wash station 440, 441. Further, additional elements such as brushes, hot-air blowers for drying, and the like may be used.
• FIG. 5A shows a three-dimensional detail view of a holding station 121, of which the holders of the preceding FIGS. 1 to 4 preferably have a plurality.
• Each stopping place 121 is essentially formed by a U-shaped, downwardly open recess on the holder. Through the recess two side walls 523, 524 are formed. The side walls 523, 524 each have a retaining groove 122. At least one of the mounting grooves 122 has Snap-525.
• the latching element 525 which is only partially visible in FIG. 5A, is a ball catch in a known configuration. This has essentially a ball and a not visible here, because behind the ball arranged compression spring, which are arranged in a blind bore.
• FIG. 5B shows a three-dimensional detail view from FIGS. 3 and 4, wherein a dosing unit 140 inserted into the receiving device 104 is shown. This is located in the metering position and consequently over the target vessel 132. Furthermore, it can be seen that the drive device 103 is coupled to the metering unit 140 via the drive shaft 107. As a result, can be operated with the drive device 103, a dosing valve not shown dosing unit 140.
• a guide rail 142 is formed on the dosing unit 140.
• the guide rail 142 further has a trough 541, into which engages the latching element 525 described in Figure 5A when used in the holding station 121 dosing unit 140. This is necessary because the dosing unit 140 or functional unit 440, 441 must be released from the receiving device 104 when it is inserted into the holding station 121 and this requires a certain resistance due to the friction conditions.
• the latching element 525 secures the metering unit 140 from falling out of the holding station 121 in an uncontrolled manner.
• FIG. 5B also shows a windscreen cover 560 which is fixed to the receiving device 104.
• a portion of the metering device 140 protrudes through an opening formed on the windshield cover 560, wherein the contour of the opening of the contour of this part is adapted such that the opening is almost completed when inserted into the receiving device 104 metering unit 140.
• the windshield cover 560 lies in the metering position of the metering device on the windshield 203.
• the metering device may be equipped with a suitable sensor which sends a signal to the control of the changing device when the windshield 203 and the windshield cover 560 touch , If the metering device according to the invention is integrated in a larger system, it may be useful to perform the loading of the holding station 121 or the holder, by means of a loading device only partially shown in Figure 5B.
• at least one gripper coupling point 542 is formed on the dosing unit 140 or functional unit 440, 441.
• the charging device for example an industrial robot, has a gripper 550, which can engage in the gripper coupling point 542, so that the metering unit 140 or functional unit 440, 441 can be frictionally and / or positively connected to the charging device.
• the loading device is arranged independently of the metering device.
• the holding station 121 It makes sense to equip the holding station 121 with a dosing unit 140 or functional unit 440, 441 by means of a horizontal frame directed towards the horizontal movement, since no components of the dosing hinder this direction.
• the holding space 121 or the retaining grooves 122 must be designed such that a charge from this direction, so to speak "from the front” is possible.
• FIG. 6 shows a metering unit 140 inserted into the holding station 121 of a holder, in the plan view according to the plane AA indicated in FIG.
• the holding station 121 and the receiving device it makes sense that the carriers 105 of the receiving device can reach into the holding station 121.
• the dosing unit 140 or functional unit is arranged between a vertically arranged inner plane pair Y, Y 'and an outer plane pair X, X'.
• two superposed support points 143 and a gripper coupling point 542 are arranged.
• each plane of the outer pair of planes X, X 'each has a guide rail 142. Accordingly, the receiving device and the holding stations 121 are configured, wherein the Garrungsnuten 122 are each arranged in a plane of the outer pair of planes X, X '. In each plane of the inner pair of planes Y, Y 'each two superimposed carrier 105 of the receiving device are arranged. Furthermore, the gripper 550 is adapted to the arranged in the inner plane gripper cup 542.
• the windshield cover 660 in Figure 6 is not with the Receiving device, but coupled to the dosing unit 140.
• the windshield 203 may also be arranged on the windshield cover 560 of the receiving device 104 or on the windshield cover 660 of the metering unit 140.

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