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US 2025/0019118 A1Published application
Plastic pallet with improved joining systems and method thereof
AssigneePláSticos TéCnicos Mexicanos, S.A. De C.V.
InventorsAlejandro Gómez Caudillo, Juan Pedro Baca Sánchez, Andrea Jaramillo Lopez, Adrián Andrade Ontiveros
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to multi-piece plastic pallets with hot riveting joining systems.
Claims16
A plastic pallet comprising:
- a top deck, which is in turn formed by an upper face, a lower face, a left side face, a right-side face, a front face, and a rear face, wherein the lower face includes a plurality of legs integrally formed thereof, and wherein said plurality of legs are at least one upper part of leg, as well as a plurality of crossed and simple ribs;
- a bottom deck, which is in turn formed by an upper face, a lower face, a left side face, a right-side face, a front face and a rear face, wherein the upper face includes a plurality of legs integrally formed thereof, and wherein said plurality of legs are at least one lower part of leg, as well as a plurality of crossed ribs, a plurality of simple ribs and a plurality of fork entries;
- wherein the joining or coupling between the lower face of the top deck with the upper face of the bottom deck, occur when the lower part of leg of the bottom deck overlap with the upper part of leg of each leg of the plurality of legs, forming a plurality of spaced apart, entirely formed, legs corresponding to each leg of the plurality of legs;
- when said upper and bottom deck are overlapped, a plurality of joining members integrally formed in the top deck legs pass through a corresponding plurality of holes disposed in the bottom deck legs;
- once the plurality of joining members passes through the corresponding plurality of holes, the joining members comprise a distal end portion or pin head protruding from the lower portion of the holes,
- the joining members exactly match in number and array with the holes in the lower part of the leg;
- the joining members having such a length that after the top deck and bottom deck are fully coupled, the distal end portion or pin head protrudes from the corresponding opposite portion, thus, said pin head shall be shall be heated to form a dome, plate, disk, semi-sphere, and related shapes and carrying out a hot riveting process of the pin head;
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- wherein the plastic pallet further comprises additional adjusting means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.