An all-steel winged pallet has a deck formed of hollow steel tubes welded at each end to a support member. The support members extend perpendicular to the deck tubes and parallel to each other and have generally U-shaped cross-sections that are mirror images to each other. The inner side of the U is welded to the tubes at a location spaced inwardly from the respective end of the tube, and the outer side is bent outwardly to form a shelf and is then bent upwardly to be welded to the end region of the tubes. The shelf includes a roller contact area under the outermost part of the deck tubes to ride on rollers of a gravity-flow rack system and a guide that extends longitudinally along the shelf to provide a surface against which the rollers can bear.
A platform for supporting a movable storage building employing a pair of parallely and spacedly positioned rails between which are supported a plurality of laterally extending floor joists. The rails each provide a U-shaped channel for receiving the ends of the floor joists and a pair of spacedly positioned openings which expose channels juxtapositioned to and parallel with the floor joists for receiving the prongs of a forklift mechanism.
Hollow metal profile having a substantially U-shaped cross-section includes a supporting wall, to which is connected a first side wall and a second side wall substantially at right angles thereto. The first side wall forms in its central area a U-shaped part extending parallel to the supporting wall in a direction of the second side wall. The side walls, in each case equidistantly of the supporting wall, pass into first and second reinforcing walls directed towards one another and parallel to the supporting wall. Portions of the supporting wall and the second reinforcing wall which is connected to the second side wall each carries a fixing lug directed towards one another and which, together with the second side wall define two U-shaped recesses.
A plastic pallet comprises a plurality of longitudinal spaced apart and parallel base members; a plurality of longitudinal spaced apart and parallel cross-members disposed transversely over the base members; and a plurality of compression cups or cylinders for snapping the components together. The base and cross-members are extruded polyvinylchloride. Each of the base member has a substantially "I"-beam cross-section with a web portion disposed between substantially trapezoidal upper and lower flange portions. The base and cross-members each includes a plurality of longitudinal openings for making the pallet lightweight and rigid.
A reusable skid for receiving stacked sheets which includes a pair of spaced-apart, longitudinal rails and a pair of spaced-apart, transverse members which extend over the rails. The transverse members are not fastened to the rails, and thus the skids may be assembled and disassembled easily.
Three embodiments of a plastic pallet and accompanying top frames are described. The parts of the pallets and top frames are formed from extruded stock, and many of such parts are made from the same or similar stock. In its basic aspects, all embodiments of the pallet include top and bottom sections which are spaced from one another by spacer blocks which are formed from a common piece of plastic stock. Most desirably, each of these spacer blocks is generally hollow with strengthening webbing but is oriented relative to the top and bottom decks so that the latter close those opposed ends at which the hollow interior and webbing otherwise would be exposed. The design is such that exposed ends of other parts of the pallet are similarly closed by other parts.
