Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform – Including a roller or track contacting area
Patent
1996-08-15
1998-09-22
Cuomo, Peter M.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
Including a roller or track contacting area
108 551, 108143, B65D 1944
Patent
active
058099069
ABSTRACT:
A shipping pallet is manufactured from steel plate for the transport of loads which are to be confined on the load-carrying surface without banding the load. The pallet is formed without stringers, instead using a unitized base constructed from multiple sections of channel stock to form a rectangular grid, and welding an imperforate rectangular sheet of steel onto the tops of the channels sections. The sheet of steel reinforces the grid and provides a support surface (deck member) on which locating pins rest. The locating pins are thrust through coaxially aligned perforations in the upper and lower decks of twin-decked deckboards which are slidably adjustable in a pair of C-channels, or, on rails, disposed on opposite sides of the support surface. The locating pins thus confine the load, for example, a stack of sheet metal blanks of arbitrary shape which can be stacked to the height of the locating pins. The adjustable deckboards and multiplicity of perforations therein permit placing locating pins precisely at the periphery of the load, confining it without permitting it movement in the horizontal plane. Through-perforations in the upper and lower surfaces of the deckboards allow locating pins to be inserted so as to rest on the deck member, avoiding the use of detent members to secure the pins in the perforations.
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Chrysler Corporation
Cuomo Peter M.
Wilkens Janet M.
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