Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform – Formed from folded semirigid material
Patent
1996-12-19
1998-09-22
Cuomo, Peter M.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
Formed from folded semirigid material
108 563, B65D 1900
Patent
active
058099034
ABSTRACT:
A pallet is described wherein a pallet deck is supported by collapsible tubular support members having rectangular cross-sections. The pallet has a main portion including the pallet deck and a series of flaps extending from the lateral sides of the pallet deck, these flaps being foldable to define outermost support members. The flaps are sized to fold in such a manner that the outermost support members are automatically aligned in parallel fashion, with cross-sectional configurations that guarantee collapsibility, when the flaps are folded inwardly to the greatest possible extent. The pallet also includes a central portion including a central support member and side flaps extending from the lateral sides of the central support member. The side flaps are sized and configured to align the central support member in parallel and simultaneously collapsible relation to the outermost support members when fit between and in abutment with the outermost support members.
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Cuomo Peter M.
National Pallet LLC
Wilkens Janet M.
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