Patent ID: 6910570

Claim:
A transport system for containers, in particular an airport baggage handling system, comprising: a first conveyor assembly extending at a first transport plane for transport of a container in a transport direction; a second conveyor assembly extending at a second transport plane at a vertical distance to the first transport plane for transport of a container in the transport direction, each of the first and second conveyor assemblies having a split conveyor to define a gap, and a further conveyor movable between a first position in which the further conveyor bridges the gap and a second position in which the further conveyor is moved outwardly transversely to the transport direction; and a transfer device for moving the container between the first and second conveyor assemblies, when the further conveyor of one of the first and second conveyor assemblies is moved to the second position, wherein the transfer device includes a convex portion disposed in proximity of one of the first and second transport planes and a concave portion constructed to swing into the other one of the transport planes, said convex and concave portions arranged in succession of the transport direction, wherein the container has a bottom underside formed in transport direction with at least one grooved recess which defines a leading edge and a trailing edge, as viewed in the transport direction, with the convex and concave portions of the transfer device capable of engaging only the leading and trailing edges of the container, as the container is moved between the first and second transport planes.