US 2026/0296752 A1Published application

System for palletizing gas cylinders

OwnerShmuel Dovid Newman, Jeffrey O. Browninventors

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Abstract

A system for palletizing gas cylinders into one or more gas cylinder layers may include one or more pallet trays. Each pallet tray may have a two-dimensional array of tray-cylinder interface stations. A pallet tray may be in tray supported engagement with a gas cylinder layer disposed downwardly thereof. A pallet tray may be in cylinder supporting engagement with a gas cylinder layer disposed upwardly thereof. The system may include an array cover having a two-dimensional array of cover-cylinder interface stations. The array cover may be in cover supported engagement with a gas cylinder layer disposed downwardly thereof. The array cover and one or more pallet trays may be secured in strapped engagement with one another. A pallet tray may be in pallet supported engagement with a plurality of pallet feet. A plurality of fork relief zones may be defined between adjacently disposed rows and adjacently disposed columns of pallet feet.

Claims27

Dependent claims

A system for palletizing gas cylinders into one or more gas cylinder layers, the system comprising:

one or more pallet trays, each said pallet tray having a tray upper portion, a tray lower portion, a tray lateral periphery, and a two-dimensional array of tray-cylinder interface stations;
wherein
(a) each said gas cylinder layer comprises a horizontal two-dimensional array of gas cylinders, each said gas cylinder having an upper dome, a lower dome, a collar extending upward from the upper dome, and a foot ring extending downward from the lower dome;
(b) each said pallet tray is configured to be placed in
(i) tray supported engagement with a said gas cylinder layer disposed downwardly thereof;
and
(ii) cylinder supporting engagement with a said gas cylinder layer disposed upwardly thereof;
(c) each said tray-cylinder interface station includes a lower alignment portion disposed along the tray lower portion and a foot ring alignment channel disposed along the tray upper portion;
(d) in the tray supported engagement, each said tray-cylinder interface station is configured to aligningly engage the collar of a respective downwardly disposed said gas cylinder by way of the lower alignment portion;
and
(e) in the cylinder supporting engagement, each said tray-cylinder interface station is configured to aligningly receive the foot ring of a respective upwardly disposed said gas cylinder by way of the foot ring alignment channel.

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A system for palletizing gas cylinders into one or more gas cylinder layers, the system comprising:

a plurality of pallet trays including a lowermost pallet tray and an uppermost pallet tray, each said pallet tray having a tray upper portion, a tray lower portion, a tray lateral periphery, and a two-dimensional array of tray-cylinder interface stations;
a plurality of gas cylinder layers including an uppermost gas cylinder layer and a lowermost gas cylinder layer, each said gas cylinder layer comprising a horizontal two-dimensional array of gas cylinders;
and
an array cover having a cover upper portion, a cover lower portion, a cover lateral periphery, and a two-dimensional array of cover-cylinder interface stations;
wherein,
(a) by way of the tray-cylinder interface stations,
(i) each said tray upper portion is configured for cylinder supporting engagement with any one of the gas cylinder layers;
and
(ii) each said tray lower portion is configured for tray supported engagement with any one of the gas cylinder layers;
(b) by way of the cover-cylinder interface stations, the cover lower portion is configured for cover supported engagement with any one of the gas cylinder layers;
(c) for the lowermost pallet tray, the tray lower portion is configured for resting engagement with a local horizontal surface and the tray upper portion is in cylinder supporting engagement with the lowermost gas cylinder layer;
(d) for the uppermost pallet tray, the tray lower portion is in tray supported engagement with one of the gas cylinder layers and the tray upper portion is in cylinder supporting engagement with the uppermost gas cylinder layer;
and
(e) the cover lower portion of the array cover is in cover supported engagement with the uppermost gas cylinder layer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 19/630,331Filed 26 Mar 2026
Priority: 26 Mar 2025
Published: 1 Oct 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

B65D 71/0092
Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck: provided with one or more rigid supports, at least one…
B65D 19/0048
Forming discontinuous or non-planar contact surfaces: and each contact surface having a stringer-like shape
B65D 19/385
Details or accessories: frames, corner posts or pallet converters, e.g. for facilitating stacking of charged pallets
B65D 19/44
Details or accessories: elements or devices for locating articles on platforms