System for loading and unloading loose cargo in a cargo hold, preferably of a plane, and intermediate conveyor means or conveyor unit therefor

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The present invention concerns a system for loading and unloading loose cargo (6), such as preferably pieces of luggage or the like in a cargo hold (1) of , a plane, including conveying the loose cargo (6) towards the inner end of the cargo hold (1) , during loading, or away from it during unloading and including transport of , the loose cargo (6) between the level of the tarmac and the cargo hold opening. In the system of , the invention, the loose cargo (6) may during loading be conveyed into the fuselage in a , direction transversal to the longitudinal axis of the plane and also in the longitudinal , direction of the plane, and deposited in the cargo hold (1). Loose cargo (6) …