Patent ID: 8348194

Claim:
A conveyor device for objects, or for baggage, in an aircraft hold configured to accommodate both of containers and the objects or baggage, the device comprising: a cargo loading system including rollers, upper edges of the rollers defining a rolling plane on which a container is movable by causing the rollers to roll; and a set of conveyor belts arranged longitudinally in the hold one after the other so as to extend over at least part of the length of the hold, each conveyor belt includes an upper section configured to accommodate an object to move the object, each conveyor belt is movable between a first raised position in which the upper section of the conveyor belt is located above the rolling plane and a second position in which the upper section of the conveyor belt is located below the rolling plane, and the rollers are configured to contact the container at the rolling plane and to move the container when the conveyor belt is in the second position so that a bottom surface of the container is separated by a vertical gap from the upper section of the conveyor belt.