PLASTIC MOLDED PALLET

• US 3,664,271 A
• Filed: 12/15/1969
• Issued: 05/23/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ernest Harold Wolder, James Harold Jarrett
• Original Assignee: Ernest Harold Wolder, James Harold Jarrett
• Inventors: Wolder, Ernest Harold, Jarrett, James Harold
• Primary Examiner(s): Gay, Bobby R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Finch, Glenn O.
• Application Number:
  US04/870,669
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: 108/51-58,144 214/79
• US Class Current: 108/57.26
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 19/0012 forming a continuous plane contact surface
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 19/0022 forming a continuous plane contact surface
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00034 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00069 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00273 made of more than one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00278 the load supporting surface and the base surface being identical
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00288 made of one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00323 made of more than one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00333 contact surface having a stringer-like shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00343 contact surface being substantially in the form of a panel
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00557 without separate auxiliary elements
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00567 mechanical connection, e.g. snap-fitted
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 108/901 Synthetic plastic industrial platform, e.g. pallet

Abstract

Formed pallet apparatus including first deck means formed with a first deck wall and a plurality of integral female sockets. Second deck means is formed with a second deck wall and a plurality of integral male plugs which are formed to be telescopically received in the respective sockets to support the deck walls in spaced apart relationship. Coupling means is provided for coupling the plugs in the sockets whereby the first and second deck means may be formed separately and then coupled together to form a pallet apparatus which incorporates deck walls that are spaced apart for receipt of lift-fork tines and the like.

Claims

1. Formed pallet apparatus comprising:

first deck means including a first deck wall and a plurality of female sockets formed integrally therewith and spaced apart to form tine-receiving passageways therebetween;

second deck means including a second deck wall and male plugs formed integrally therewith and disposed for telescopical receipt in said respective sockets to support said first deck spaced a selected distance from said second deck wall; and

coupling means for coupling said plugs in said sockets and including interlocking rib and groove means to secure said socket and plugs together whereby said first and second deck means may be formed separately and then assembled together by telescoping said plugs into said sockets and said firsT and second deck walls will be spaced apart said selected distance for receipt therebetween of tines extended into said passages.

2. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said female sockets are in the form of projecting tubular members.

3. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said coupling means is in the form of peripheral grooves formed in said sockets and peripheral coupling ribs formed on said plugs for complemental receipt in said grooves.

4. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said sockets are disposed on one end of said first pallet means and said first pallet means includes a plurality of sockets disposed in a complemental pattern on the end opposite said one end and said second pallet means includes sockets arranged in a pattern to receive said plugs in said first mentioned pallet, the pattern for the plugs and sockets in said second pallet means being a mirror image of the pattern for said plugs and sockets in said first pallet means.

5. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said first and second deck means are made from plastic.

6. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said first and second deck means are made from polyethylene.

7. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said male plugs are in the form of projecting tubular members.

8. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said first deck means is formed with a peripheral reinforcing rib.

9. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said first and second deck walls are in the form of continuous sheets.

10. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said second deck wall is in the form of a plurality of longitudinally extending transversely spaced apart runners.

11. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 10 wherein said first and second deck means are each formed with a central row of confronting stubs which abut together on their confronting ends when said deck means are assembled together.

12. Formed pallet apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein:

said first deck wall is planer and said female sockets are in the form of projecting tubes formed with internal peripheral grooves defining said groove means; and

said second deck wall is planar and said male plugs are in the form of flexible wall tubes formed with external peripheral ribs defining said rib means.