Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform – Formed from folded semirigid material
Patent
1992-06-26
1993-05-25
Chen, Jose V.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
Formed from folded semirigid material
108 561, B65D 1900
Patent
active
052130509
ABSTRACT:
This is a pallet as might be used to support cargo during that cargo's transportation or storage. The pallet is constructed of paper or functionally equivalent sheetstock. The pallet design involves a central platform or deck constructed of a honeycomb filler supported by a number of footblocks holding the central platform off the floor. The bottom of the pallet is covered by a combination of sheets patterned in such a way that the legs supporting the central platform are integral with that central platform; that is, the footblocks (or legs) do not have a seam at their juncture to the central platform. Desirably the lower portion is formed of two sheets; one sheet ("the bottom cover") is cut and folded in such a way that the legs and the surface adjacent the bottom of the central portion are of the shape in which the pallet is finally used. The other sheet ("lower facing sheet") is of the general size and shape of the bottom with cutouts allowing the footblocks (covered by the bottom cover sheet) to protrude through that lower facing sheet. It is positioned adjacent the bottom surface of the central platform. The upper surface of the central platform is covered with a generally continuous sheet ("the upper facing sheet"). The upper facing sheet may be a corrugate or heavy stock paper depending upon its ultimate usage. To enhance the torsional and deflective strength of the central platform and thence that of the pallet, a corrugated sheet may be used as the upper facing sheet and positioned so that the corrugations of the upper facing sheet and those of the lower facing sheet are not parallel. Additionally, the various corrugated sheets may be folded over the edges of the honeycomb core and fastened to another other surface.
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Chen José V.
Damage Prevention Products Inc.
Wheelock E. Thomas
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