Half-barrel keg pallet
AssigneeAnheuser-Busch, Incorporated
InventorsChristopher J. Bailey, Carl E. Schuldt
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Abstract
A pallet having a pair of shoulders raised from opposing sides of a deck, a pair of legs extending downwardly from the sides of the deck, and a third leg extending downwardly from a central portion of the deck, the third leg having at least one foot. The shoulders including an inner upper seating surface and an outer upper seating surface. The pair of legs each including an inner support surface vertically offset from an outer support surface. The inner upper seating surface and the outer upper seating surface of the pallet configured to cooperate with the outer support surface of each of the pair of legs of a second pallet stacked atop the pallet to align the two pallets to one another such that the legs of the second pallet do not disengage from the first pallet.
Claims20
A pallet comprising:
- a deck having an upper surface opposite a lower surface;
- a shoulder extending from the upper surface, the shoulder having an inner vertical surface, an inner upper seating surface, an outer upper seating surface, and an outer vertical surface, the inner vertical surface extending beyond the upper surface of the deck further than the outer vertical surface;
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- a leg extending from the lower surface, the leg having an outer leg vertical surface, an outer support surface, a lower seating surface, an inner support surface, and an inner leg vertical surface.
A pallet stacking system comprising:
- a first pallet and a second pallet, each of the first pallet and the second pallet comprising:
- (1) a deck having an upper surface opposite a lower surface;
- (2) a shoulder extending from the upper surface, the shoulder having an inner vertical surface, an inner upper seating surface, an outer upper seating surface, and an outer vertical surface, the inner vertical surface extending beyond the upper surface of the deck further than the outer vertical surface;
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- (3) a leg extending from the lower surface, the leg having an outer leg vertical surface, an outer support surface, a lower seating surface, an inner support surface, and an inner leg vertical surface,
- wherein when the first pallet is stacked atop the second pallet, the outer support surface of the leg of the first pallet engages the outer upper seating surface of the shoulder of the second pallet.
A pallet comprising:
- a deck having an upper surface opposite a lower surface;
- a plurality of legs extending from the lower surface, each of the legs extending only a portion of a distance from a front side to a rear side of the deck, wherein
- each of the plurality of legs includes at least one receiving surface recessed for engaging with at least one half-barrel keg and a lower support surface,
- the plurality of legs nestingly receive the half-barrel keg, and
- the plurality of legs constrain the half-barrel keg from moving front to rear and side to side relative to the deck;
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- a channel extending laterally from a first side to a second side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.