Patent ID: 7232065

Claim:
A luggage collection installation located at a place of arrival where passengers disembark from an aircraft or other means of transportation in which passengers and thier luggage are transported, the disembarked passengers having with them passenger coupon parts of boarding passes, which passenger coupon parts contain encoded luggage identification corresponding to identification data on transported luggage, the installation comprising: a principal conveyor belt that receives luggage unloaded from said aircraft or other means of transportation; plurality of luggage outlets each comprising a subsidiary conveyor belt located outwardly of different locations of the principal conveyor belt, for delivering luggage to locations where passengers can wait for their luggage to be delivered; each subsidiary conveyor belt being associated with a reader with a slot for entering the passenger coupon part of a boarding pass, each reader being situated adjacent to a location of its subsidiary conveyor belt where the subsidiary conveyor belt delivers luggage to waiting passengers; means for reading luggage identification data carried by luggage to be collected on the principal conveyor belt, which luggage identification data corresponds to encoded luggage identification data stored in the passenger coupon part of the boarding passes; and control means, that connect the readers associated with the subsidiary conveyor belts and said reading means of the principal conveyor belt, for diverting luggage from the principal conveyor belt onto a subsidiary conveyor belt when the luggage identification data associated with the luggage corresponds to that on the passenger coupon part of a boarding pass inserted in the reader of the subsidiary conveyor belt.