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US 9,751,657 B2Granted
Material handling pallet
AssigneePalac Industries Inc.
InventorsChristian Cote, Andre Tanguay
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AssigneePalac Industries Inc.
InventorsChristian Cote, Andre Tanguay
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A metal pallet (10) has a deck (12), a base (14) and a plurality of beams (16) therebetween. The deck (12), the base (14) and the beams (16) may be formed from lightweight sheet metal. The metal sheets are folded into the desired shape to respectively form the beams (16), and panels (18, 22) and slats (20, 32) for the deck (12) and the base (14). The panels (18, 22) and the slats (20, 32) are corrugated and the opposed side edges thereof may be folded upon themselves to provide for robust multi-ply edge constructions. Different types of corrugations may be provided over the panels (18, 22) and the slats (20, 32) to locally reinforce the pallet (10). The bottom portion of the beams (16) may be plastically deformed to create arched opening (58) to permit side entry of pallet handling equipment. The plastically deformed regions (60) of the beams (16) may be configured to improve the mechanical properties of the beam while providing maximal clearance for pallet handling equipment.
A metal pallet comprising a deck mounted on a plurality of laterally spaced-apart beams, at least peripheral ones of said beams having a one-piece sheet metal body including a pair of legs extending upwardly from a bottom end, the legs defining therebetween a hollow internal volume, the one-piece sheet metal body having at least one die formed portion protruding into said hollow internal volume between longitudinally opposed ends of the one-piece sheet metal body, each of said at least one die formed portion defining an arched opening across the one-piece sheet metal body, wherein the deck has at least one corrugated metal panel having two different types of corrugations,
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