Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform – Adjustable
Patent
1995-09-11
1998-01-13
Chen, Jose V.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
Adjustable
108 551, B65D 1944
Patent
active
057067384
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a general goods transport pallet, comprising mainly a rectangular and flat base with fixed dimensions, whereupon the general goods to be transported have been positioned and which is provided with locking members for locking said general goods to the pallet during transportation, and extension pieces extending exterior to the base and rigidly fastenable thereto, for enlarging the loading surface area of the transport pallet if needed. The invention also relates to use of said transport pallet for transporting cars and other wheeled vehicles.
Transport pallets in themselves have long been constructed in various configurations. The basic structure of a transport pallet is described in publication U.S. Pat. No. 26164. Since provision of good strength in a transport pallet and reduction of the thickness increases transport payload capacity, a plurality of different shapes have been set forth regarding the structure of transport pallet. For instance, in publication U.S. Pat. No. 3,709,161, a transport pallet of cell structure is described. In publications GB-2,182,703 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,801,483, different types of plate constructions are described, such as sandwich plates which would be appropriate for use, for instance, in producing pallets although said publications do not actually concern pallets. In addition, the pallets are provided with fastening members for fastening a load to be placed on top of pallet to said pallet. Said fastening members are described in publications U.S. Pat. No. 3,622,114 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,834,000. In the latter publication, a pallet design is described where one of the ends is provided with rolls, so that by inclining the pallet it can be pulled while the pallet is moving supported by the rolls rolling at said end. Said prior art designs known are encumbered with the drawback that the pallet is always fixed in dimensions, whereby transporting such products is completely impossible in which a dimension exceeds, even slightly, the length or width of the pallet. This is due to the fact that during transportation or storage, the pallets are always arranged tightly next to one another in order to prevent them from moving, whereby placing an article of excessive dimensions on a pallet would harm this, in addition to which, if a loading is carried out without paying any attention to this factor, the forces during the transportation are directly directed at the general goods being transported, which would very likely cause damages in said goods during transportation or stowage, or other forms of transfer.
Publication U.S. Pat. No. 5,092,541 describes a transport pallet, comprising mainly a rectangular and flat base fixed in dimensions, just like any other pallet. The pallet contains furthermore the standard fastening members for fastening the general goods to be placed thereupon. Differing from the rest of the transport pallets, the pallet structure of said publication contains typically two extension pieces mounted on the opposite edges of the pallet, thus increasing the loading surface area of the pallet. The extension pieces of the reference publication are in cross-section of the shape of a reverse letter L, one branch whereof being inserted into the fastening holes in the pallet edge, so that the other branch of the L shape projects outwards from the pallet. Said extension pieces are locked in place from an upper L-shaped branch with side rods or side wires reaching the fastening holes of the other sides of the pallet. In the present structure, the aim has particularly been to increase the payload effectiveness of an aeroplane, the hull whereof being round in cross-section, so that the loading surface divided into two different heights is particularly well appropriate inside the aeroplane in the lower parts thereof when the extensions are transverse to the length of the plane. As regards other usages, said structure is encumbered with serious drawbacks. First, just the fact that the loading surface has with extensions been divided into two differen
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