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US 3,952,672 AGranted
Corrugated disposable pallet
AssigneeInternational Paper Company
InventorsRobert Lewis Gordon, Keith Alan Cooper
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Abstract
A pallet of foldable material comprising a unitary outer structure folded about and joined to a unitary inner structure said pallet being easily assembled and disassembled.
Claims18
A pallet which comprises:
- a. a unitary inner structure of foldable material comprising
- i. a flat deck,
- ii. two folded support cells extending along opposite sides of the flat deck containing at least an outside vertical wall, an upper horizontal wall, and an inside vertical wall;
- iii. at least one set of aligned slots along the upper horizontal and inside vertical walls of the support cells;
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- b. a unitary outer structure of foldable material comprising,
- i. a flat deck abutting the flat deck of the inner structure,
- ii. two vertical walls extending from opposite edges of said flat deck and folded about the ends of said inner structure support cells,
- iii. two flaps extending respectively from said vertical walls and folded along the upper horizontal support cell walls,
- iv. two tuck flaps extending respectively from said flaps and inserted into said slots in said support cells.
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A pallet which comprises:
- a. a unitary inner structure of foldable material comprising,
- i. a flat deck,
- ii. two folded support cells extending along opposite sides of the flat deck containing at least one outside vertical wall, an upper horizontal wall containing two cuts disposed in a direction normal to said vertical wall, an inside vertical wall, and a double bottom horizontal wall,
- iii. two sets of slots juxtaposed in parallel alignment along the upper horizontal and inside vertical walls of the support cells,
- iv. four tabs extending from the four corners of the flat deck inserted into said cuts provided in the horizontal walls of the support cells;
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- b. a unitary outer structure of foldable material comprising,
- i. a flat deck abutting the flat deck of the inner structure,
- ii. two vertical walls extending from opposite edges of said flat deck and folded about the ends of the inner structure support cells,
- iii. two flaps extending respectively from said vertical walls and folded along the upper horizontal support cell walls,
- iv. two tuck flaps extending respectively from said flaps and inserted into said slots of the inner structure in said support cells, said tuck flaps being substantially of the same dimension as the inner and outer structure vertical walls so as to provide additional support to the pallet structure.
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