Industrial pallet

• US 4,846,077 A
• Filed: 07/31/1984
• Issued: 07/11/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tenneco Plastics Company
• Original Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation (Exxon Mobil Corporation)
• Inventors: Win, Michael M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Application Number:
  US06/636,473
• Time in Patent Office: 1,806 Days
• Field of Search: 428/910, 248/346, 248/678, 206/497, 108/51.1, 108/52.1, 108/901, 108/56.1
• US Class Current: 108/57.25
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 19/0073 and each contact surface having a stringer-like shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00024 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00029 Wood
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00034 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00044 Combination, e.g. different elements made of different materials, laminates
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00059 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00064 Wood
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00069 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00293 made of more than one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00298 skeleton type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00323 made of more than one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00338 contact surface having a discrete foot-like shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00557 without separate auxiliary elements
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00572 with separate auxiliary element, e.g. screws, nails, bayonets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 108/901 Synthetic plastic industrial platform, e.g. pallet

Abstract

Fork lift truck pallet having a load deck of a plastic stretch wrap film wrapped with tension about a pallet frame.

Claims

1. A pallet comprising a load deck of plastic stretch film, wrapped with tension about a pallet frame.

2. The pallet of claim 1 including spacer means accommodating the lifting of said pallet.

3. The pallet of claim 1 wherein said film thickness is in the range of about 0.1 to about 4 mils.

4. The pallet of claim 1 wherein said film is a polyolefin.

5. The pallet of claim 4 wherein said polyolefin is a polyethylene film.

6. A pallet comprising in combination a pallet frame, said frame being tautly overwrapped with a plurality of layers of stretch-wrap film in its tension-stretched condition, so as to form in cooperation with said frame, a plastic film, product-supporting surface.

7. The pallet of claim 6 including spacer means accommodating the lifting of said pallet.

8. The pallet of claim 6 wherein said film thickness is in the range of about 0.1 to about 4 mils.

9. The pallet of claim 6 wherein said film is a polyolefin film.

10. The pallet of claim 9 wherein said film is a polyethylene film.