Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform – Formed from folded semirigid material
Patent
1997-04-11
1998-11-17
Chen, Jose V.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
Formed from folded semirigid material
B65D 1900
Patent
active
058362541
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to a pallet comprising a number of parallel base beams and a deck which is joined to the base beams. The invention also relates to a method for the manufacturing of the pallet, a blank for the manufacturing of a base beam, and an apparatus for the manufacturing of such base beams.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Pallets made of cardboard, paper and/or paperboard have previously been proposed with the primary aim of offering a cheaper and easier alternative to conventional pallets made of wood. However, these pallets have not gained general acceptance. The reasons for this have generally lain in features such as too poor a load-bearing capacity, difficulty of handling with lifting forks, too high a price in relation to the technical qualities of the pallet, prohibitive costs for transport from producer to user, difficulties in recovering the material, etc.
The object of the invention is to tackle this set of problems. The invention aims in particular to afford the following advantages: at or near the site of the user. The storage space for pallets can be drastically reduced in this way. Instead, sheets or web-shaped material can be stored for producing the pallets, which takes up much less space. in particular in relation to its own weight. is discontinued and is replaced by transportation of the starting material, which can consist, for example, of sized cardboard in sheet stacks. site of the external pallet producer and of transporting and storing these pallets can be dispensed with. Instead, the starting material, which takes up a minimal amount of space, can be ordered and stored adjacent to a machine at the site of or near the user of the pallets. transportation work and means that greater loads can be transported. said pallets can be recovered in their entirety within the paper industry. By suitable sizing of the material, the pallets are nevertheless made almost completely water-proof. Should the pallets be used for energy production by firing, the gases which develop are the same as occur upon incineration of paper. in the type of industry which sets strict hygiene requirements. compressed and in this way regain their minimal volume, before the material is recovered or burned. reduced number of components, more specifically from blanks for the deck and blanks for the manufacturing of the base beams, which fact affords advantages in terms of logistics and production technology.
The invention also aims to provide a method for the manufacturing of the pallet, and an apparatus for the manufacturing of base beams starting from blanks which have been manufactured in advance.
The invention also aims to provide such a blank which is adapted for the manufacturing of base beams.
These and other aims and advantages of the invention can be achieved by virtue of the said invention being characterized by what is specified in the patent claims which follow. Further characteristics, aspects and advantages of the invention are evident from the following description of two conceivable embodiments of the pallet, of the blank for the manufacturing of the base beam, and of an apparatus for the manufacturing of the base beams according to a method which is included as a stage in the manufacturing of the pallets.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
The invention will be explained in greater detail hereinbelow with reference to the attached drawing figures, of which:
FIG. 1 represents a perspective view, obliquely from above, of a pallet according to a first conceivable embodiment of the invention,
FIG. 2 shows the same pallet in an oblique view from below,
FIG. 3 represents a perspective view of a supporting member included in the pallet,
FIG. 4 represents a perspective view, obliquely from above, of a pallet according to a second, preferred embodiment of the invention,
FIG. 5 shows an end view of a base beam included in the pallet according to this preferred embodiment,
FIG. 6 shows the same base beam towards one long side, and on a smaller scale,
FIG. 7 represents a plan view of a b
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Chen José V.
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