Methods for improving unit load efficiency
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsSteven Lee Barnholtz, Andrew D. Biddle, Nathalia Pelaez, Jessica G. Capone, Jose A. Mercado
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Abstract
A method for increasing unit load efficiency may include providing a pallet, forming a stack on the pallet, and wrapping the stack with an elastically deformable substrate under an applied force to reduce one or more of an initial maximum stack length to a compressed maximum stack length or an initial maximum stack width to a compressed maximum stack width. Upon compression the compressed maximum stack length may be from about 1% to about 10% greater than the pallet length, and the compressed maximum stack width may be from about 1% to about 15% greater than the pallet width.
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A method for increasing unit load efficiency, the method comprising:
- providing a unit load comprising a pallet and a stack disposed on the pallet,
- the pallet having a pallet length along a pallet longitudinal axis and a pallet width along a pallet lateral axis,
- the stack comprising a plurality of packages,
- the stack having an initial maximum stack length along the pallet longitudinal axis and an initial maximum stack width along the pallet lateral axis, wherein the initial maximum stack length and the initial maximum stack width are measured;
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- applying a force to the stack to reduce one or more of the initial maximum stack length to a compressed maximum stack length along the pallet longitudinal axis and the initial maximum stack width to a compressed maximum stack width along the pallet lateral axis, wherein the compressed maximum stack length and the compressed maximum stack width are measured,
- wherein one or more of the compressed maximum stack length is from about 1% to about 10% greater than the pallet length and the compressed maximum stack width is from about 1% to about 15% greater than the pallet width.
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