Luggage collection installation
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A luggage collection installation, located at a place of arrival where passengers disembark from an aircraft or other means of transportation with passenger coupon parts (31) of boarding passes, is arranged to facilitate luggage delivery. The passenger coupon parts (63) contain encoded luggage identification corresponding to identification data on transported luggage. The installation comprises at least one reader/writer (5) for the passenger coupon parts (63) and means (4) for reading luggage identification data carried by luggage to be collected on a conveyor (2), and which corresponds to encoded luggage identification data stored in the passenger coupon part (63) of the boarding passes. A plurality of luggage outlets (3) are each associated with a reader/writer with a slot (5) for the passenger coupon parts, and arranged for removing luggage or for allowing removal of luggage from the luggage collection installation when the luggage identification data associated with the luggage corresponds to that on the passenger coupon part (63) of a boarding pass inserted in the reader/writer slot (5).
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66 Claims
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1-55. -55. (canceled)
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56. A luggage collection installation located at a place of arrival where passengers disembark from an aircraft or other means of transportation with passenger coupon parts of boarding passes, which passenger coupon parts contain encoded luggage identification corresponding to identification data on transported luggage, the installation comprising:
- at least one reader/writer for said passenger coupon parts of boarding passes;
means for reading luggage identification data carried by luggage to be collected and which corresponds to encoded luggage identification data stored in the passenger coupon part of the boarding passes; and
means for removing luggage or for allowing removal of luggage from the luggage collection installation 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/writer. - View Dependent Claims (57, 58, 59)
- at least one reader/writer for said passenger coupon parts of boarding passes;
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60. A method of processing a boarding pass of which a passenger coupon part contains encoded luggage identification data corresponding to identification data on transported luggage, for the collection of transported luggage at a destination or transit point equipped with a luggage collection installation, wherein the passenger coupon part of the boarding pass is passed through a reader/writer at the luggage collection installation, and luggage is removed or allowed to be removed from the luggage collection installation when the identification data associated with the luggage corresponds to that on the passenger coupon part of a boarding pass inserted in the reader/writer.
- 61. A method of processing a boarding pass of which a passenger coupon part contains encoded luggage identification data corresponding to identification data on transported luggage, wherein if transported luggage is missing at a destination or transit point, the passenger coupon part of the boarding pass is passed through a reader/writer connected via a communications system to a luggage tracing system for inputting identification data of luggage in transit and determining the location of the luggage.
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63. A system for facilitating the collection of luggage at a place of arrival where passengers disembark from an aircraft or other means of transportation with passenger coupon parts of boarding passes, which passenger coupon parts contain encoded luggage identification corresponding to identification data on transported luggage, the system comprising:
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1) at a point of departure, means for encoding in passenger coupon parts of the boarding cards encoded luggage identification data corresponding to luggage identification data associated with pieces of luggage checked by the passengers; and
2) at a place of arrival, a luggage collection installation comprising;
at least one reader/writer for said passenger coupon parts of boarding passes;
means for reading luggage identification data carried by luggage to be collected and which corresponds to encoded luggage identification data stored in the passenger coupon part of the boarding passes; and
means for removing luggage or for allowing removal of luggage from the luggage collection installation 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/writer. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66)
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