Temporary parking station for conveying devices of biological product containers

A temporary parking station for conveying devices each containing only one container of biological products, interfacing with a laboratory automation system, comprising a conveyor belt with at least one dispatching lane for said conveying devices, wherein it includes at said dispatching lane a stop gate adapted to queue the conveying devices let into the station and to release only one of said conveying devices at each step, said conveying device proceeding along said dispatching lane to a diverter fitted on a motorized belt, parallel to the dispatching lane, adapted to move said diverter in steps in either one direction or the other from a start of travel position to an end of travel position, said steps of the diverter being timed with said steps of the stop gate, said diverter being adapted to divert for each of said steps only one of said conveying devices on a main conveyor belt moveable in a direction perpendicular to the motorized belt, said main conveyor belt being adapted to convey the conveying devices over a head belt, said conveying devices accumulating in tidy rows on the head belt and on the main conveyor belt, said head belt sliding perpendicularly to said main conveyor belt and being adapted to convey the conveying devices over a return belt parallel to said main conveyor belt and sliding in opposite direction, adapted to return the conveying devices over the dispatching lane of the conveyor belt.