Cargo area of an airport
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Abstract
The invention relates to the cargo area of an airport, having transporting paths which connect the land side and the air side of the airport and are intended for the standard loading units (ULDs), and also having interim stores for the buffer storage of the loading units prior to the cargo being assembled. In order to create storage and sorting opportunities in the immediate vicinity of the transporting paths, while being simultaneously independent of the main store, and in order to achieve flexible supply of the loading units, it is proposed for the transporting paths to be assigned vertical stores each with a plurality of storage levels which are arranged one above the other, are set up above or alongside the transporting paths and in which, with the aid of lifting means, the loading units, which can be lifted off from the transporting paths, can be stored.
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30 Claims
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1-14. -14. (canceled)
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15. A cargo area of an airport having a land side for connecting to a road and/or railroad and an air side for connecting to the apron of the airport, comprising:
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a transporting path for transporting a plurality of loading units between the land and air sides; an interim store each having a plurality of storage levels arranged one above the other where the store is arranged above or alongside the transporting path, wherein the interim store provides a buffer storage of the loading units within the cargo area prior to assembling cargo to be assigned to an aircraft or a vehicle in a desired order; and a lifting device associated with the interim store that lifts the loading units from the transporting paths onto an assigned storage level for storage. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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