Luggage inspection apparatus

Luggage inspection installation comprising:

• a tubular frame comprising a plurality of pairs of opposed lateral openings, said tubular frame being suitable for accommodating a plurality of successive containers in line respectively with the pairs of lateral openings, each of said containers having two opposing faces and a plurality of juxtaposed and superposed locations that are freely accessible through said two opposing faces, each of said locations being suitable for receiving a piece of luggage provided with an information recording medium containing information relating to said piece of luggage;
• a locating device and a reading device linked to a recording member to be able to record, for each of said locations of each container receiving a piece of luggage, a position of said location in said container and said information relating to said piece of luggage;
• wherein said locating device comprises photoelectric detection grids installed respectively across the lateral openings of the plurality of pairs of opposed lateral openings, and in that the position of said location in said container is recorded when the photoelectric detection grid is crossed opposite said locations and said reading device reads said information recording medium.