Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-22
2005-02-22
Chen, Jose V. (Department: 3637)
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
C108S057120
Reexamination Certificate
active
06857377
ABSTRACT:
A shipping pallet that has a load bearing deck with a plurality of domes that provide high strength, stiffness, and rigidity to the deck, and an undercarriage for supporting the deck and for receiving a forklift, palletjack, hand truck, or other automated machinery. Each dome is defined by an apex located proximate to the upper surface of the deck and a plurality of legs extending from the apex and ending at the lower surface of the deck. The domes are arranged adjacent to each other and define an array such that a load applied to the upper surface of the deck, substantially on the apex of the domes, will cause the applied forces from the load to be transmitted substantially laterally along the legs of the arches thereby producing intersecting compressive forces between adjacent domes that enable the load bearing deck to have high strength, stiffness, and rigidity.
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Halavais Richard A.
Herring Conrad C.
Chen José V.
Herring Conrad C.
Law Offices of James D. McFarland
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