Patent ID: 8632293
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: B62D,B64F

Abstract:
1. A cart for transport and storage of airport luggage items, comprising: a chassis comprising a plurality of wheels that make contact with a cart-supporting surface at respective points of contact, whereby the wheels' points of contact with the cart-supporting surface define a plane; a storage section rotatable with respect to an upright axis and comprising: a plurality of shelves, each of the shelves being inclined with respect to said plane, each of the shelves thereby defining an upper end and a lower end, the upper end of each of the shelves being arranged at a loading end of the cart, and the lower end being arranged at an unloading end of the cart, the upper end of each of the shelves being open and non-obstructed so that the airport luggage items can slide directly onto the shelf, and the lower end of each of the shelves being at an opposite end of the cart from the upper end; a releasable closure structure at the lower end of each of the shelves, the closure structure having a closing position, in which it retains the airport luggage items supported by the shelf in the cart, and an open, non-closing position, in which the airport luggage items may be removed from the cart at the lower end of the shelf, wherein the storage section is rotatable with respect to the chassis around the upright axis, and wherein each of the shelves is dimensioned to receive a plurality of the airport luggage items successively loaded onto the shelf from the upper end thereof and automatically conveyed from the upper end to the lower end of the shelf under the action of gravity due to the incline, so as to thereby successively accumulate the plurality of airport luggage items on the shelf.