Light weight plastic pallet
AssigneeNational Industrialization Company (TASNEE)
InventorsHamdan A. Al-Shehri, Mukesh K. Yadav, Mohammed Ali Ghanchi
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Abstract
The presently disclosed pallet is made of plastic, optionally recycled plastic, is low weight, and can handle weight up to more than 2.75 tons as a stacking load. The pallet has a unique design of ribs forming an upper deck and a lower deck to hold the required load. The upper deck and lower deck of the pallet are separated by a group of legs. Cross ribs are provided in each of the upper and lower decks and are oriented perpendicularly to reduce the weight of the pallet without significantly reducing its strength.
Claims8
A low weight plastic pallet comprising:
- an upper pallet deck and a lower pallet deck, each deck comprising perpendicularly oriented cross ribs, such that the weight of the pallet is reduced without substantially reducing its strength;
- four corner legs, each having the same size and shape and positioned along corners of a rectangular pallet;
- four middle legs, each centrally positioned along a side of the pallet;
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- a center leg positioned in the center of the pallet and connecting the upper pallet deck with the lower pallet deck, wherein the center leg comprises a hollow area and a number of alternately organized and angularly offset slopes and troughs to provide support with minimum weight, wherein each set of adjacent middle legs, the intervening corner leg between them, and the center leg define a square pattern;
- the square patterns of the upper deck comprising diagonally oriented ribs intersecting in the middle of the diagonally oriented ribs.
A low weight plastic pallet configured in the shape of a rectangle having four corners, said pallet comprising:
- perpendicularly oriented cross ribs comprising an upper pallet deck and a lower pallet deck, wherein one or more ribs contain one or more holes;
- four corner legs, each having the same size and shape and positioned along the corners of the rectangular pallet;
- four middle legs, each centrally positioned along a side of the pallet to form gaps between the middle legs and the adjacent corner legs, the gaps extending from a side of the pallet to the opposite side of the pallet;
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- a center leg positioned in the center of the pallet and connecting an upper pallet deck with a lower pallet deck, the center leg comprising a hollow area and a number of alternately organized and angularly offset slopes and troughs to provide support with minimum weight, wherein the upper deck comprises ribs configured to define an octagon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.