Checking device

• US 6,431,344 B1
• Filed: 09/08/2000
• Issued: 08/13/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Frasec Fraport Security Services GmbH (Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide)
• Original Assignee: GSL Gesellschaft Fur Service-Leistungen mbH
• Inventors: Rösler, Andreas, Bentlin, Stefan, Emmermann, Marco, Keil, Erich
• Primary Examiner(s): Bidwell, James R.
• Application Number:
  US09/658,228
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• Field of Search: 198/448, 198/950
• US Class Current: 198/448
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 1/368 Arrangements or installations for routing, distributing or loading baggage
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 5/003 Entrance control E05G5/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 198/95 Conveyor transverses wall aperture

Abstract

A device for checking objects carried by persons entering an enclosed area, has a checking area, a first transport device transporting objects from a first location outside the checking area into the checking area, and a second transport device transporting objects from a second location outside the checking area into the checking area, wherein the second location is not the first location. This design increases the throughput of persons through such a check point.

Claims

1. A device for security checking objects carried by persons entering an enclosed area, the device comprising:

a security checking area;

a first transport device configured to transport objects from a first location outside the security checking area into the security checking area;

a second transport device configured to transport objects from a second location outside the security checking area into the security checking area, wherein the second location is not the first location.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second transport devices have a portion that is common to both the first and second transport devices.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second transport devices are oriented relative to one another to form a switch.

4. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a third transport device configured to transport the objects out of the security checking area.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the third transport device is configured to transport the objects to a third location positioned outside the security checking area, wherein the third location is not the first location or the second location.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein the security checking area is a transfer lock and wherein the first and second locations are located upstream of the transfer lock in a transport direction of the objects and the third location is positioned downstream of the transfer lock in the transport direction of the objects.

7. The device according to claim 4, wherein at least one of the first, second, and third transport devices comprises rollers configured to rotate about a horizontal axis and configured to moveably carry the objects placed onto the rollers in the transport direction.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the security checking area comprises an X-ray device.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein at least a portion positioned within the security checking area of at least one of the first, second, and third transport devices is motor-driven.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the motor-driven portion comprises a transport belt.