Patent ID: 7021449
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: B64F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. Device for performing a method for storing baggage delivered early, so-called early baggage, in traffic facilities, in particular commercial airports, which baggage is delivered to a check-in point a period, for example >2 h, before the departure time of the respective transport vehicle, whereby this baggage is being taken into storage until the time when it will be loaded into the respective transport vehicle by placing the baggage into a conveying system and storing it in this system in such a way that it can be removed from storage at any time and is brought via a removal station to the loading, wherein the early baggage is conveyed from the check-in point via a conveyor section of the conveying system to a special intermediate storage place and is handled there item by item mechanically and stacked in a space-saving manner at assigned intermediate storage places, that the respective intermediate storage place for the respective baggage is recorded in an electronic data processing system, and that the early baggage items stored at the intermediate storage place are mechanically removed from the storage place when a predefined time is reached and are transported via the conveyor section to the normal loading process, with a conveying system with at least one first conveyor section designed for the standard loading of baggage as well as at least one each entrance point and removal point for baggage that are assigned to the first conveyor section, in particular for early baggage, which early baggage is stored at an intermediate storage place, wherein the conveyor section designed for the usual loading of the baggage is provided with at least one removal and introduction point, each of which is provided with a guide device that removes the early baggage from this conveyor section to the respective intended intermediate storage place or introduces it from the intended intermediate storage point to the intended loading onto the conveyor section provided for the usual loading of the baggage, and that mechanical means for handling each individual baggage item are provided at each intermediate storage place, which mechanical means grasp the respective baggage item and convey it from the conveyor section to the intended intermediate storage place for early baggage or which remove the stored baggage from the intended intermediate storage place for early baggage and convey it onto the conveyor section.