| 摘要 |
An automatic baggage handling system utilizing individually powered baggage carts designed to carry luggage or other material at airports, railroad stations, and the like. Baggage handling information is converted into an electrical binary train of bits prepared by an optical ticket reader which scans a precoded, specially prepared baggage ticket and converts the data thereon into binary form. Baggage associated with the particular baggage ticket is loaded on to the baggage cart and a low power transmitter transfers the digital data to an escort memory in the form of a transceiver on the baggage cart. The loaded self-propelled baggage cart then moves along a track, with its escort memory being read by track readers located at critical, switching portions of the track, the track being switched in response to information contained in the baggage cart escort memory so that the baggage cart is transported expeditiously to a predetermined point on the track which may be a final destination or an intermediate holding area. Means are also provided for changing the information contained in the escort memory of identified carts in the holding area so as to encode a message therein identifying the desired final destination of the cart. The cart is then released from the holding area and delivered to the desired final destination, the aforementioned track readers reading the escort memory and switching the track in accordance with the information read.
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