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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1994
Ted D Kilpatrick, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (US);
Arthur M Wagner, Geneva, IL (US);
Jefferson Smurfit Corporation (U.S.), St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
In a pallet, each of a plurality of similar stringers is folded from a single sheet of paperboard material and has at least two downwardly opening notches, and each of a plurality of similar braces is folded from a single sheet of paperboard material and has an upwardly opening notch. The upwardly opening notch of each brace is interengaged with one of the downwardly opening notches of the stringers, except that at least one of the stringers is not interengaged with such a brace at one or more of the downwardly opening notches. Each downwardly opening notch of each stringer is shaped so as to be deeper at the outer panels of such stringer and so and to so as to be shallower at two inner panels of such stringer. Each upwardly opening notch of each brace is shaped so as to interengage with such a notch of one of the stringers and so as to have a groove receiving portions of the inner panels of the stringer having the interengaging notch. The stringers and the braces are secured adhesively to one another at the interengaging notches.