AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR ANALYZING SPECIMEN IN TEST PACK FOR MATERIAL TO BE ANALYZED

PURPOSE: To analyze a test pack to be used easily with high reliability and safely, automatically, rapidly and repetitively by providing a loading station having a loading door for continuously loading and unloading a series of the test packs. CONSTITUTION: A test pack is held in slots 410, 412 on aligned rotary racks of rotary rack plates 404, 406 of a top part and bottom part by an arcuate spring related to the rotary rack plates on the top part and bottom part and engaging the same. A spring force of the arcuate spring at the top and bottom parts holds the test pack during the rotation of the rotary rack and during reading of a read-out head 504, while the test pack is held at the same position for its own weight until it is removed by one of a drum 300 or 302. The rotary rack is driven by a servocontrol 12V DC motor driven through a rotary rack gear 414 and pinion drive spur gear.