Nestable pallet
AssigneeRehrig Pacific Company
InventorsJon P. Hassell, Dane Gin Mun Kalinowski
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Abstract
A nestable pallet includes a deck having a plurality of openings through an upper support surface thereof. A plurality of corner columns extend downward from the deck. The plurality of corner columns are aligned with the plurality of openings through the upper support surface of the deck. The plurality of corner columns each include a front face, a rear face, an outer face, an inner face opposite the outer face, and an angled face between the inner face and the front face. The angled face includes a plurality of vertical corrugations, such as a first vertically-elongated recess between a first vertically-elongated projection and a second vertically-elongated projection.
Claims25
A nestable pallet comprising:
- a deck having a plurality of openings through an upper support surface thereof;
- a plurality of corner columns extending downward from the deck, the plurality of corner columns aligned with the plurality of openings through the upper support surface of the deck, the plurality of corner columns including a first corner column;
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- the first corner column including a front face, a rear face, an outer face and an inner face opposite the outer face, the first corner column further including an angled face between the inner face and the front face, the angled face including a first vertically-elongated recess between a first vertically-elongated projection and a second vertically-elongated projection.
A nestable half pallet comprising:
- a deck having a plurality of openings through an upper support surface thereof, the deck further including a plurality of intersecting ribs extending downward from an upper support surface of the deck;
- a pair of side columns extending downward from side edges of the deck;
- a plurality of corner columns extending downward from the deck, the plurality of corner columns and the pair of side columns aligned with the plurality of openings through the upper support surface of the deck;
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- each of the plurality of corner columns including a front face, a rear face, an outer face, an inner face opposite the outer face, and an angled face between the inner face and the front face, the angled face including a plurality of vertical corrugations.
A nestable pallet comprising:
- a deck having a plurality of openings through an upper support surface thereof;
- a plurality of columns extending downward from the deck, the plurality of columns aligned with the plurality of openings through the upper support surface of the deck, the plurality of columns including a first column;
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- the first column including a front face, a rear face, an outer face and an inner face opposite the outer face, the inner face including a plurality of vertical corrugations reinforced by a plurality of vertical inner ribs along interior surfaces thereof and a plurality of angled gussets along exterior surfaces thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.