There is provided an improved paperboard-load supporting pallet which includes a deck formed of a plurality of layers of paperboard material and also includes a plurality of runners attached to the bottom surface of the deck. Each of the runners includes spaced, parallel corrugations and is also formed of a plurality of layers of paperboard material. A novel method is also provided for forming the pallet of the present invention.

This relates to a package of cylindrical containers such as drums which have scrolled edges so that the drums or containers may be assembled in nested relation on the pallet and drums of adjacent pallets may internest. Accordingly, there is provided a pallet and a cooperating hold-down which include supports extending longitudinally of each row of containers in a manner wherein a strap or band may engage around each row of containers and lock the same in assembled relation with respect to the support members or pallet and hold-down. The thus banded-together pallet, containers and hold-down form a rigid package having a scrolled edge wherein adjacent packages will internest to provide for a maximum loading of drums or other cylindrical containers in a transporting vehicle.

A pallet includes a base plate of cantilever construction and legs of metal, particularly as an underframe for pallet containers for transporting and for storing liquids in an inner container of synthetic material standing on the base plate of the pallet, and an outer casing composed of a grid structure or sheet metal material attached to the base plate. The base plate and the legs of the pallet are manufactured as a single piece from a sheet metal plate as the initial material by deformation, particularly by deep-drawing and/or pressing or by hydroforming.

A pallet approachable by tines from at least two directions, the pallet having a plurality of substantially parallel beams each fixed in lateral juxtaposition to any neighboring beams, the beams being linked by a structure above a bottom surface, the arrangement providing spacings into which the beams can substantially nest from below to allow a base to base nesting of beams of different pallets or self nesting of the same pallet upon folding in half, thereby to provide a reduction in the overall volume of any pairing of pallets or any individual foldable pallet respectively, each of the beams (by a transverse opening through each beam) can accommodate a pair of forks from opposite horizontal directions. Eight embodiments are disclosed. One plain flat pallet, one which folds in half, some with extensions which telescope into the beams, one with a collapsible cage, and others with various forms of the beam elements and the structure for linking therebetween. The pallet elements may be wood, metal, plastic or any combination thereof.