Pallet with stress resistant structure
AssigneeJeco Plastic Products L.L.C.
InventorsMark Bendit, Steven Turley, Craig Carson
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Abstract
A one-piece, hollow, continuous wall pallet having a deck and underside structural features that function in conjunction with the deck for support and reinforcement when a load is placed on the pallet or when a side of the pallet is impacted. The structural features include an arched bottom recess, side impact depressions, and kiss-off structures, in one of the legs or portion of the underside. The pallet is preferably made using rotational molding.
Claims19
A hollow pallet comprising a deck wall, an underside supporting the deck wall, the underside including a plurality of outer legs and a center leg between the outer legs, the center leg having an arched concave recess that arches toward the deck wall, the recess forming a portion of a wall of the center leg.
A continuous surface, hollow pallet having a deck wall and a plurality of legs beneath the deck wall, each having a wall with an inner and an outer surface, at least one of the plurality of legs including a substantially triangular depression with a rounded corner wall portion adjacent the inner surface of a side wall of the leg having the depression.
A plastic one-piece, hollow, continuous wall pallet, the pallet comprising a substantially flat deck wall, a plurality of legs, and partially planar wall sections between the legs on an underside of the pallet, a floral kiss-off structure in at least one of the partially planar wall sections on the underside of the pallet wherein the floral kiss-off structure is adjacent the deck wall to provide support and reinforcement when a load is placed on the pallet.
A plastic one-piece, hollow, closed, unitary, continuous wall pallet with an inner wall surface and an outer wall surface, the pallet comprising:
- a substantially flat deck;
- outer legs on an underside of the pallet being at two opposing outermost edges of the deck;
- a center leg on the underside of the pallet between the outer legs;
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- a partially planar wall section between the center leg and each outer leg;
- wherein the center leg includes:
- an arched concave recessed wall arching toward the deck, the arched concave recessed wall including a concave kiss-off depression extending toward the deck wherein the inner wall surface of the depression is adjacent the inner wall surface of the deck, and
- a triangular depression with a rounded corner having its inner wall surface adjacent the inner wall surface of an outer side wall of the center leg.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.