Back to results
US 5,440,998 AGranted
Plastic pallet assembly and method
AssigneePolycytek of Michigan, Inc.
InventorsRobert L. Morgan, IV, Michael D. Monfore
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
Loading patent…
AssigneePolycytek of Michigan, Inc.
InventorsRobert L. Morgan, IV, Michael D. Monfore
Estimating the term…
The invention is a plastic essentially rectangular modular pallet assembly, the parts of which are also modular, comprising front and rear vertical transverse stringer members and top and bottom horizontal longitudinal deckboard members having alternating longitudinally-extending flat strip areas and longitudinally-extending channels or concavities on the surfaces thereof, wherein the longitudinal flat strip areas and channels or concavities of the top and bottom surfaces of deckboard members lie in vertically opposed relation to each other, the stringers comprising, on upper and lower deckboard-abutting surfaces, integral deckboard fastening studs, top and bottom deckboard members having apertures therein in flat surface strip areas thereof near the ends thereof which are adapted to receive the deckboard fastening studs, the deckboard fastening studs being received in the apertures and secured therein, the front and rear stringers of the pallet as well as sides of the pallet having openings adapted to receive the prongs of a lift truck or pallet jack.
A plastic essentially rectangular modular pallet assembly, the parts of which are also modular, comprising front and rear vertical transverse stringer members and top and bottom horizontal longitudinal deck board members having alternating longitudinally-extending flat strip areas and longitudinally-extending channels or concavities on the top and bottom surfaces thereof, wherein the longitudinal flat strip areas and channels or concavities of the top and bottom surfaces of deck board members lie in vertically opposed relation to each other, said stringers comprising, on upper and lower deck board abutting surfaces thereof, integral deck board fastening studs, top and bottom deck board members having apertures therein in the flat surface strip areas thereof near the ends thereof which are adapted to receive said deck board fastening studs, said deck board fastening studs being received in said apertures and secured therein, said front and rear stringers of said pallet having openings therein adapted to receive the prongs of a lift truck or pallet jack therein:
A plastic modular pallet-forming deckboard, adapted to become a horizontally-disposed longitudinal top or bottom pallet deck board member in a pallet formed therefrom, having alternating longitudinally-extending flat strip areas and longitudinally-extending channels or concavities on the rod and bottom surfaces thereof, wherein the longitudinal flat strip areas and channels or concavities of the top and bottom surfaces of the deck board lie in vertically opposed relation to each other, and having apertures therein in the flat surface strip areas thereof near the ends thereof which are adapted to receive integral deck board fastening or securing studs on both upper and lower surfaces of vertically adjacent transverse stringer members of a pallet formed therefrom;
A plastic modular pallet-forming stringer, adapted to become a vertically-disposed transverse front, back, or intermediate pallet stringer member in a pallet formed therefrom comprising, on upper and lower surfaces thereof, which are adapted to abut deckboards in a pallet formed therefrom, integral deckboard fastening or securing studs, which are adapted to be received and secured in apertures in longitudinally-extending flat surface strip areas of deckboards near the ends of said deckboards in a pallet formed therefrom, said stringer having openings therein adapted to receive the prongs of a lift truck or pallet jack therein;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.