Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform
Patent
1987-08-12
1989-02-07
Aschenbrenner, Peter A.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
108 513, 108 561, B65D 1920
Patent
active
048024210
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to pallets consisting of two or several base members provided with a number of holes adjacent or at a minor distance from, the upper load-bearing horizontal surface of the base members, through which holes tubes are inserted under friction to unite the base members and form the pallet. The tubes do not require a special structure to fix them to the base members being kept in position due to friction and the so-called drawer effect; the friction is considerably increased under load.
The base members of the type to which the invention pertains can, however, also be combined with each other by attaching a plate of a suitable material (board, plywood etc.) by, e.g., gluing the same to the upper horizontal surfaces of the base members, in which case the aforedescribed holes are not required or utilized. The plate then forms the load-bearing plane. When tubes are used for combining the base members the load-bearing parts of the pallet are the upper parts of the tubes and the upper surfaces of the base members in combination. If desired or required in view of the goods to be carried a pallet with tubes may be provided with one or more plates either located above the base members or between the same, which form a smooth and continuous load-bearing plane.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A pallet of the type discussed above is described in WO No. 86/01786 . . . (PCT/SE85/00346) which is incorporated herewith as a reference. The PCT patent application aims at achieving a pallet which can be handled by forks from all four sides, consisting of at least two base members provided with holes at the upper load-bearing surfaces and with recesses in the lower parts, intended to receive the forks of a conventional fork-lift truck, which pallet has a very low weight, is cheap, has a great flexibility as regards adaptability for different purposes, is not bulky when stored (since it can be stored in a non-completed state in the form of its separate parts) and which, if desired, can easily be destroyed after use by burning without formation of toxic or otherwise disturbing gases. This pallet can be handled by a fork-lift truck from all of the four sides; the forks can be inserted below the tubes from two sides and into the recesses in the base members from the remaining two sides, which is desirable for rational handling and storage of goods.
The base members for the pallets according to the present invention, are, in comparison with many previously known base members, very cheap when manufactured in bulk and have a very low eight and a fully sufficient load-bearing capacity and fulfils commercial requirements.
The specific base member for a pallet according to the present invention is characterized in that it is constituted by three pressed and folded carton pieces U-shaped cross section and with a length corresponding to the desired length of the base member, of which the first and the second pieces have a height corresponding to the height of the base member, and the third pieces has an inner height approximately equal to the diameter of the tubes which project laterally through the base members. The first carton piece is located in the base member in the upright U-section with the back or cross part of the U-section at the bottom, i.e., disposed against the floor. The second carton piece is located with the U-section inverted and inside the first carton piece; and the third carton piece is located with the U-section upright and within and uppermost in the second carton piece. The distances between the vertical walls of the U-section, rectangular, folded carton pieces being such that they fit closely to each other and by gluing are tightly fixed to each other at the surfaces in contact with each other. The holes for the base member joining tubes are made through the space defined by the third carton piece uppermost in the base member so that the tubes are supported between and by by the horizontal inner surface of the third carton piece and the horizontal inner surface of
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WO 81/02283--International Publication of PCT/US80/01768, Parent Case U.S. Ser. No. 119,827, filed Feb. 8, 1980.
Intl. Publ. Date: Aug. 20, 1981--Inventor: L. E. Tisdale.
(Cited in PCT International Search Report).
Atterby Fred
Tenggvist Lennart
Voss-Schrader Bertil
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