Abstract: A target device for an X-ray examination installation has a cassette carrier which permits loading of an X-ray film cassette therein from the left or the right, the cassette carrier is movable from a ready position at a right of the installation through at least one exposure position and to a left side loading position. The cassette carriage has two clamping jaws disposed parallel to each other in a regulating plane, the jaws being two-dimensionally displaceable relative to each other in the regulating plane. The carriage further has a detent for fixing the position of the X-ray film cassette in the longitudinal direction of the clamping jaws. The clamping jaws are urged against each other in the right side loading position by a bias spring, and are urged apart in the left side loading position. A clamping slide having a projection extending into the regulating plane of the device between the clamping jaws is moveable within the cassette carriage in the longitudinal direction of the clamping jaws.