Pallets

A pallet for material transport to be handled with a fork lift truck comprising a plurality of notched longitudinally extending wooden stringers, transverse deckboards fixedly secured to said notched longitudinally extending stringers, said stringers having a drilled hole at each end and a reinforcing U-shaped member extending from each outermost stringer end to a center stringer end and extending into said drilled hole and substantially through said stringers, said U member at least at the ends thereof extending into said drilled hole in said stringer being of a diameter sufficient to arrest cleavage of said stringer when said stringer is struck by the tine of a fork lift truck, and having a surface sufficiently smooth to enable relative movement between split stringer parts and said ends of said U-shaped member subsequent to any such cleavage so as to permit repeated repair of a stringer by forcing together of cleaved stringer parts around said end, said U-shaped member being at most flush with said deckboards and said notch being sufficiently large to receive the fork of a fork lift truck.

A pallet for material transport to be handled with a fork lift truck comprising a plurality of notched longitudinally extending wooden stringers, transverse deckboards fixedly secured to said notched longitudinally extending stringers, said stringers having a drilled hole at each end and a reinforcing U-shaped member extending across each of the ends of said pallet, with the ends of said U-shaped member extending downwardly into said drilled hole and substantially through the two outermost stringers of said pallet, said U member at least at the ends thereof extending into said drilled hole in said stringer being of a diameter sufficient to arrest cleavage of said stringer when said stringer is struck by the tine of a fork lift truck, and having a surface sufficiently smooth to enable relative movement between split stringer parts and said ends of said U-shaped member subsequent to any such cleavage so as to permit repeated repair of a stringer by forcing together of cleaved stringer parts around said end, said U-shaped member being at most flush with said deckboards.

A pallet for material transport to be handled with a fork lift truck comprising a plurality of longitudinally extending wooden stringers, transverse deckboards fixedly secured to the top of said longitudinally extending stringers, said stringers having a drilled hole at each end and a U-shaped member extending across each of the ends of said pallet, with the ends of said U-shaped member extending downwardly into said drilled hole and substantially through the two outermost stringers of said pallet, said U member at least at the ends thereof extending into said drilled hole in said stringer being of a diameter sufficient to arrest cleavage of said stringer when said stringer is struck by the tine of a fork lift truck, and having a surface sufficiently smooth to enable relative movement between split stringer parts and said ends of said U-shaped member subsequent to any such cleavage so as to permit repeated repair of a stringer by forcing together of cleaved stringer parts around said end, said U-shaped member being at most flush with said deckboards.

A pallet for material transport to be handled with a fork lift truck comprising a plurality of notched longitudinally extending stringers, transverse deckboards fixedly secured to the top of said notched longitudinally extending stringers, said stringers having a drilled hole at each end and a U-shaped member extending across the bottom of the outermost stringers at each end thereof and projecting upwardly into said drilled hole and substantially through said stringers, said U member at least at the ends thereof extending into said drilled hole in said stringer being of a diameter sufficient to arrest cleavage of said stringer when said stringer is struck by the tine of a fork lift truck, and having a surface sufficiently smooth to enable relative movement between split stringer parts and said ends of said U-shaped member subsequent to any such cleavage so as to permit repeated repair of a stringer by forcing together of cleaved stringer parts around said end, said U-shaped members being recessed into said stringers, and said notch being sufficiently large to recieve the fork of a fork lift truck.

A pallet for material transport to be handled with a fork lift truck comprising a plurality of longitudinally extending stringers, transverse deckboards fixedly secured to said stringers, at least the outermost stringers of said plurality of stringers being wooden and having drilled holes at each end thereof and a reinforcing pin in each of said drilled hole enclosed and interlocked within said stringer, and said pin in said drilled hole in interlocking relation with said stringer being of a diameter sufficient to arrest cleavage of said stringer when said stringer is struck by the tine of a fork lift truck, and said pin having a surface sufficiently smooth to enable relative movement between split stringer parts and said pin subsequent to any such cleavage so as to permit repeated repair of a stringer by the forcing together of cleaved stringer parts around said pin.