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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
John R. Perazzo, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Other;
Abstract
A pallet includes a number of runners which may be sandwiched between upper and lower face sheets of corrugated paperboard. Each runner is comprised of multiple layers of corrugated paperboard with the flutes of the corrugations oriented vertically to provide compression strength to the runners and the associated pallet. Each runner also may include at least one reinforcing insert most preferably of hardboard to provide beam strength to the runner and a band to avoid failure without a prior indication. Moreover, each runner may include portals which permit four-way entry for the tines of a lift truck and inhibit tipping of the load off of the tines. As a result, the pallet offers significantly greater safety features, strength and resistence to crushing or compression than known paperboard pallet designs, avoids the significant ecological and economic drawbacks of wooden pallets and can be processed in a paperboard recycling station along with paperboard containers, boxes or the like.