Pallet and pallet package

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1996-04-24

1997-10-14

Chen, Jose V.

Horizontally supported planar surfaces

Industrial platform

108 551, 108901, B65D 1900

Patent

active

056760647

ABSTRACT:
A plastic pallet and a method of shrink-wrapping an article onto the platform structure of the pallet. The pallet includes a plurality of legs and a planar platform structure supported by the legs and formed of upper and lower thermoformed sheets of plastic selectively fused together. The upper and lower sheets are maintained in vertically spaced parallel relation in a central portion of the platform structure and peripheral edges of the upper and lower sheets are fused together to define a downwardly extending peripheral lip defining a downwardly opening groove extending around the periphery of the platform structure outboard of the legs. The peripheral lip improves the stiffness and the side impact resistance of the platform structure and the groove facilitates the shrink-wrapping of an article onto the pallet. Specifically, an article is placed on the platform structure and the article is shrink-wrapped onto the platform structure utilizing a plastic film sheet by placing the film sheet in covering relation over the article and tucking a lower edge portion of the film sheet into the downwardly opening groove.

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