PNEUMATIC DISPATCH STATION HAVING A TOOL CHANGER
Pneumatic dispatch station (1) having a station housing (2) with a receiving point (3) and an output point (4), and with a gripping device (5) which can be moved automatically between the receiving point (3) and the output point (4) and which is designed to automatically grip a pneumatic tube capsule (6) that has arrived at the receiving point (3) and to move said capsule to the output point (4), the pneumatic dispatch station also having at least one removal point (7) adjacent to the output point (4) and a tool changer (8) which is assigned to the output point (4) and which has at least one first emptying tool (9.1) and a second emptying tool (9.2) that differs from the first emptying tool (9.1), wherein the tool changer (8) has a drive device (10) which is designed to automatically move the first emptying tool (9.1) or the second emptying tool (9.2) optionally into a working position, in which the emptying tool (9.1, 9.2) selected in each case is aligned with respect to a pneumatic tube capsule (6) positioned at the output point (4), in order, by means of an actuating movement of the selected emptying tool (9.1, 9.2), to output an object to be transported that is present in the pneumatic tube capsule (6), so that the object to be transported that is output from the pneumatic tube capsule (6) reaches the removal point (7).