A baggage bin has a floor and side walls, and is lowerable from a housing. Guide
bolts secured to one side wall are movably engaged in front and rear arcuate grooves
with a common arc center point in the other side wall. A guide roller or slide
block secured to one side wall is movably engaged in a linear guide track or groove
on the other side wall. To lower the bin, it first moves linearly downward, until
the rear guide bolt reaches an end of the rear groove, and then pivots about the
rear guide bolt as the front guide bolt moves farther in the longer arc of the
front groove, so that the front loading edge of the bin tilts downward. The components
are simple, and the lateral space required between the side walls of the bin and
the housing is small.
