Sample holder gripping device

Sample holder gripping device with an elongate carrier (50) having one end adapted for attachment to an industrial robot or manual handling, and a sample holder at its opposite end (16) which is adapted to a sample holder (2) at least partially be incorporated into, and with a gripping mechanism, which is adapted to a received in the sample receiving sample holder (2) to hold therein, adjacent to the sample receptacle in the support (50) (16) is arranged a reservoir for vaporizable refrigerant, with a with communicating the sample holder (16) interface of the refrigerant reservoir is permeable to liquid and vaporized refrigerant, wherein the refrigerant reservoir comprises a hollow body (30), of which the sample holder facing end face has an opening, and inside the hollow body (30) comprises a porous storage body (40) , which upon contact with liquid K altemittel fully drawn by capillary action with the refrigerant, wherein the hollow body (30) is arranged coaxially to the elongated support (50) a hollow cylinder of which the sample holder facing end face having a central opening, and the porous storage body (40) is cylindrical and the interior of the the hollow cylinder is substantially filled, characterized in that the cylindrical storage body (40) has a central opening of the hollow cylinder continuing axial bore for receiving a central projection of the sample holder (2).