Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform – Formed from folded semirigid material
Patent
1994-01-07
1995-07-18
Chen, Jose V.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
Formed from folded semirigid material
428184, 428186, 108 561, B65D 1900
Patent
active
054331560
ABSTRACT:
A shipping pallet is constructed of multiple laminations of corrugated sheet material, with specific construction details providing advantages in strength and trueness of the completed pallet, and further advantages in the reduction of tooling and labor costs. The stringers or runners, deck boards, and top and (optional) bottom sheets may be sawn from stacks of plural laminations, thus precluding any requirement for costly dies and intensive labor. Asymmetrical corrugated sheets may be used, with one side having a different weight than the other. By laminating two such sheets together with like weighted sides in contact, the tendency of such sheets to curve or warp due to the difference in side thickness is substantially eliminated. Different orientations of the corrugations or flutes of the sheets during lamination and assembly of the pallet, provide advantages in strength for specific applications. One flute configuration substantially reduces the dust otherwise produced during the cutting operation, thus simplifying the manufacture of the pallet and reducing dust emanations from the pallet when in use. The pallet may be constructed of plural laminations of various corrugated sheet materials, such as paperboard or fiberboard, or plastic.
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Benson Miriam M.
Chen José V.
Litman Richard C.
Wilkens Janet M.
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