Conveyor device intended in particular for luggage in an aircraft hold
View Patent ↗A device intended for a hold that can receive containers and luggage simultaneously. The hold includes a freight loading system including rollers defining a rolling surface on which a container can move with the movement of the rollers. The device includes a unit including conveyor belts disposed longitudinally in the hold one after the other such as to extend over at least part of the length of the hold. Each conveyor belt includes an upper section configured to receive an object to be moved and each conveyor belt can move between a first raised position in which the upper section of the belt is located above the rolling surface defined by the rollers of the freight loading system and a second position in which the upper section of the belt is located below the rolling surface.
1. 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.
2. A conveyor device for objects according to claim 1 , comprising two sets 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, the two sets being arranged parallel opposite one another, being separated from one another by rollers of the cargo loading system.
3. A conveyor device for objects according to claim 1 , wherein conveyor belts of the same set are of the same length and arranged according to a predetermined distance.
4. A conveyor device for objects according to claim 1 , wherein each conveyor belt includes an endless belt mounted around two end rollers, and the two end rollers are parallel and mounted on arms pivoting in relation to the hold, each arm associated with an end roller forming a parallelogram with an arm of the other end roller.
5. A conveyor device for objects according to claim 1 , wherein a conveyor belt arranged at one end of the set of conveyor belts is tiltable in relation to an adjacent conveyor belt.
6. A conveyor device for objects according to claim 1 , further comprising a cargo loading system.
7. An aircraft comprising a hold, wherein the hold includes a conveyor device for objects according to claim 1 .
8. An aircraft according to claim 7 , wherein the hold includes at least two access doors each arranged substantially at an end of a set of conveyor belts, a first door is of sufficient size to allow introduction of a container of standardized size into the hold, and a second door, of smaller size in relation to the first door, is positioned on the wall of the hold opposite the wall on which the first door is located.
9. An aircraft according to claim 8 , wherein between the two access doors, at an end of at least one set of conveyor belts, the hold includes a conveyor component making it possible to carry out movement of an object in first and second perpendicular directions, the first direction corresponding to the direction of movement of an object located on the set of conveyor belts and the second direction being a perpendicular direction corresponding to a direction transverse in relation to the aircraft.