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US 2013/0112117 A1Published application
Corrugated Paper Pallet
AssigneeThe Corrugated Pallets Company
InventorsChristopher Casey, Janet Lynn Duffield
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing pallet runners and pallets constructed using them for use in the storage and/or transport of goods and, more particularly, to a low cost, strong, recyclable, reinforced pallet and runner design.
Claims9
A corrugated pallet for supporting a load during transport and storage comprising:
- a. a series of spaced parallel two way access runners, each of the runners comprising the following components:
- i. a die cut corrugated sheet comprising five joined parallel segments of length L, with the second and fourth segments having extended end flaps.
- ii. a rectangular corrugated block of length L, attached adhesively to the second and fourth segments of the die cut corrugated sheet;
- iii. two paperboard strips of length L, attached adhesively to the first and third segment of the die cut corrugated sheet;
- b. a corrugated top sheet joined to the tops of the runners using adhesive applied to the horizontal upper surface of the runner;
- c. a corrugated bottom sheet joined to the bottoms of the runners using adhesive to the horizontal bottom surface of the runner.
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A corrugated pallet for supporting a load during transport and storage comprising:
- a. a series of spaced parallel four way access runners, having openings extending the entire width of the runner in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the runner, each of the runners comprising the following components:
- i. a die cut corrugated sheet comprising five joined parallel segments of length L, with the second and fourth segments having extended end flaps;
- ii. three rectangular corrugated blocks;
- iii. six paperboard strips;
- b. a corrugated top sheet joined to the tops of the runners using adhesive applied to the horizontal upper surface of the runner;
- c. a corrugated bottom sheet joined to the bottoms of the runners using adhesive to the horizontal bottom surface of the runner.
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A method for preparing a corrugated runner for a corrugated pallet comprising the steps of:
- a. preparing a die cut corrugated sheet comprising five joined parallel segments, with the second and fourth segments having extended end flaps;
- b. spray coating an adhesive on the interior side of the die cut corrugated sheet, coating all five joined parallel segments and their end flaps;
- c. glueing a rectangular corrugated block on the second segment of the die cut corrugated sheet;
- d. placing strips of paperboard onto the first and third parallel and adhesively coated segments;
- e. folding and pressing said first and third parallel segments with attached strips of paperboard against said rectangular corrugated block on the second segment of the die cut corrugated sheet;
- f. pressing the adhesively coated fourth parallel segment against the top of said rectangular corrugated block, allowing the adhesively coated fifth parallel segment to wrap over the top and cover the outside of the first parallel segment;
- g. pressing two adhesively coated end flaps down on each end of the assembled runner to provide double coverage of the ends.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.