Pallet/skid shipping platform
OwnerStewart A. Phillipsinventor
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Abstract
A storage platform including a plurality of deck boards fastened to runners by brackets. The bracket includes a pair of spaced apart side walls attached to the side of the runner. The bracket side walls are attached to a bracket end wall, in turn, attached to a top wall spaced apart from the side walls forming a slot through which the deck board extends and is fastened thereto. In one embodiment, a bottom wall is spaced apart from the side walls to receive a bottom deck board whereas in another embodiment, the outer bottom corner portion is beveled and recessed to receive a cargo band limiting sideways motion of the band.
Claims7
A storage platform comprising:
- a plurality of parallel wooden elongated runners extending in a first direction, each of said runners including a pair of ends with said ends including one end and an opposite end and further with parallel opposite side surfaces extending therebetween and a top surface extending perpendicularly to and between said side surfaces;
- a plurality of top wooden elongated deck boards each mounted to and extending perpendicularly across said runners at said ends and resting atop said top surface;
- and,
- a plurality of brackets mounted to said runners at said ends with each of said brackets separated apart from the remaining of said brackets and with each bracket mounted to a separate single end of a separate single runner, said brackets each including a pair of vertical side walls positioned adjacent and fixedly attached to said side surfaces and further including an end wall joined to and positioned perpendicularly to and between said side walls with said brackets further including a top wall spaced apart from but attached by said end wall to said vertical side walls forming a top slot into which a deck board extends being fixedly attached thereto, said top wall cantileveredly joined to said end wall and extending therefrom in the same direction as said first direction from said end wall and said one end toward said opposite end with said top wall attached directly to said deck boards directing any lifting force applied to said deck boards through said top wall directly to said end wall and said ends of said runners.
A storage platform comprising:
- a plurality of parallel wooden elongated runners extending in a first direction, each of said runners including a pair of ends with said ends including one end and an opposite end and further with parallel opposite side surfaces extending therebetween and a top surface extending perpendicularly to and between said side surfaces;
- a plurality of top wooden elongated deck boards each mounted to and extending perpendicularly across said runners at said ends and resting atop said top surface;
- and,
- a plurality of bracket means mounted to said runners at said ends with said plurality of bracket means separated apart with each bracket means mounted to a separate single end of a separate single runner, each of said bracket means include an end wall, side walls and a top wall with said top wall cantileveredly joined to said end wall and extending therefrom in the same direction as said first direction from said end wall and said one end toward said opposite end and further with each of said bracket means positioned adjacent and fixedly attached to said side surfaces and said deck boards operable to limit splitting of said runners at said ends as lifting force is applied to said deck boards and then through said top wall and via said end wall to said side surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.