CN1167469A

CN1167469A - Wooden construction elements, construction form and pallet or bin made therewith

Info

Publication number: CN1167469A
Application number: CN95196488A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 克利夫顿·D·寇波
Original assignee: Yakima Pallet & Bin Inc
Current assignee: Yakima Pallet & Bin Inc
Priority date: 1994-11-28
Filing date: 1995-11-28
Publication date: 1997-12-10
Also published as: NO972411D0; EP0793603A1; TW289012B; BR9509773A; AU4408796A; FI972229A0; CA2204410A1; WO1996016873A1; KR980700219A; FI972229A; PL320479A1; MX9703833A; NO972411L

Abstract

A wooden pallet or bin in which a top load-bearing deck (50) and a bottom deck (58) are spaced from one another by wooden spacer blocks (60). The wooden spacer blocks (60) which are preformed blocks made up of a solid wood core member (42) sandwiched between layers (44, 46) of plywood which are adhesively laminated to the core member, are far more resistant to splitting than are unitary blocks, which are conventionally used in constructing pallets or bins. A construction form (82) including stiffening members comprising preformed members made of a wooden core (84) sandwiched between plywood layers (86, 88) is also described, as well as a construction element consisting of a wooden core member (42) sandwiched between plywood layers (44, 46).

Description

Wooden structure element, building template and pallet or case

The present invention relates to wooden structure novel and improvement.The present invention has the particular utility that cooperates with wooden pallet and case, and will cooperate this kind effectiveness to be illustrated, though the present invention also can expect other all effectiveness.

Pallet is a horizontal moveable platform device, in order to as a kind of end that is provided with unit loads assembling, storage, processing and transport matrix.Pallet structure must constitute with the hard durable material, is configured to the high pressure load when bearing the careless use of repetition for a long time, and handles this high strength bump.

Please refer to Fig. 1, a kind of wooden pallet of representational prior art comprises one and opens top layer of wood plate 10 by many longitudinally extending and be bonded to top layer assembly parallel to each other and that constituted perpendicular to the

wooden deck plate

12,14,16 that top plate 10

stretches.Deck plate

12,14,16 is fixed to the wooden partition piece 18 that top layer assembly and bottom plate 20 are separated again.The clamp four-way of the fork lifter that the permission of this kind structure can be inserted between the bottom of top enters.

Pallet is the form of truss, and therefore makes load distribution pass through each assembly, and its mode is to cause any defective, the weakness on the individual component or damage generally can adverse effect not arranged the overall performance to pallet on material.For allowing to repair, pallet is generally the use mechanical type fastener, is assembled such as nail 22 and/or bail, and it allows to change indivedual assemblies that damage.Damageable especially for generally comprising the partition piece 18 of 21/2 inch * 31/2 inch * 4 to 8 inches shives.The partition piece is easily owing to carelessly handle pallet and/or because the clamp of fork lifter clashes into splits.

The partition piece is also weakened by nailing, and Chang Keneng splits when changing one or more pieces top layers or bottom plate.Therefore, must carefully only adopt highest quality, nothing joint, personated old man's timber to form the partition piece.This kind timber costliness, and though use the selected timber of this kind, it still is a major issue that the partition piece splits, but and still for to make wooden pallet remain on important one-tenth this part of service condition.For overcoming the above-mentioned partition piece problem of splitting, the present invention's suggestion is laminated together with the plywood sheet, goes up the partition piece to constitute.Yet in fact this kind lamination plywood piece can't drive the flat sides of passing all plates with nail, therefore is difficult for using automatic nailing machine stock production.And in fact lamination plywood piece does not have retain strength for being driven into intramarginal nail.

Case is being essentially a horizontal moveable platform device similar to pallet, but a solid top layer assembly is arranged, and this assembly is generally and comprises a slice plywood, and four upstanding walls, and this wall forms an opening box with the plywood layer.

Therefore purpose of the present invention has wherein overcome the above-mentioned and other shortcoming of prior art for the new and improved wooden structure of wooden pallet of a kind of confession or case is provided.Of the present invention another than specific purpose, for a kind of wooden pallet or box structure of improvement are provided, have desirable toughness, rigidity, hardness, high bump, high pressure strength characteristic, and a durability when carelessness is handled.

Another purpose of the present invention has above-mentioned desirable feature for a kind of wooden pallet or box assembly are provided, and wherein can form by being generally existing low-cost woodwork, but not the partition piece that personated old man's timber of rare costliness forms.

For finishing above-mentioned and other result, the invention provides a kind of novel and the improvement wooden pallet or box structure, wherein the partition piece comprises by the preforming piece that solid wooden core component constituted that is clipped between plywood top layer and bottom, its viscous layer is depressed into the top and the lower surface of core component, forms a crash-resistant block assembly.With in addition the formed monolithic of selected personated old man's timber relatively, the laminate panels assembly that produces has improved rigidity and intensity and the cracking resistance property opened.

From following detailed description of the present invention, conjunction with figs. will be appreciated that other purposes of the present invention and advantage, and wherein same numeral is represented same parts, in the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is the transparent view below a kind of wooden pallet structure of prior art;

Fig. 2 is the figure similar to Fig. 1, and represents the wooden pallet that a preferred embodiment according to the present invention is made;

Fig. 3 is a transparent view, the thin portion of the expression one wooden partition piece that is made according to the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the exploded drawings of the partition piece of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is the transparent view below the wooden case assembly that is made according to the present invention;

Fig. 6 is the figure similar to Fig. 5, and represents a wooden case assembly that is made according to the present invention, the thin portion of its part;

Fig. 7 is the figure similar to Fig. 5, and another form of the wooden case assembly that made according to the present invention of expression;

Fig. 8 is the figure similar to Fig. 3, and is illustrated in the thin portion of the rotor configuration that is adopted in the wooden case assembly of the Fig. 7 that makes according to the present invention; And

Fig. 9 is the transparent view of a kind of building template of being made according to the present invention.

At embodiments of the invention shown in Fig. 2-4, represent a wooden pallet that is made according to the present invention, comprise the top layer branch assembly of conventional construction, comprise many microscler top plates 30, wherein use traditional machanical fastener,, be fixed to many wooden stringers 32,34,36 such as bail or nail.As following institute will describe in detail, the top surface of the partition piece 38 that top plate/stringer branch assembly is fixed to according to the present invention to be made successively.Be generally by nailing or bail top plate is followed closely to stringer, at first top layer is formed branch's assembly, then top layer branch assembly via nailing by top plate 30, below separately stringer 32,34,36, and enter partition piece 38 fully and be anchored on partition piece 38.Be generally, three or more 21/2 or 3 inch screw or handle nail are in order to be anchored on top layer branch assembly the anchor plate 38 below each.Partition piece 38 is positioned at the bight of pallet, and is middle with end in the pallet side, and a partition piece is located immediately at the center of pallet.

Finishing pallet is bottom laminate 40, and it is attached to the lower surface of partition piece 38, and all partition pieces 38 of cross-over connection.As seen in fig. 2, each bottom laminate 40 cross-over connection also is attached to the Three-spacer piece.Bottom laminate 40 is fixed to its partition piece separately by nail 41.As before, use at least three length enough to drive in the interior nail of each piece fully.The four-way that this structure possesses for the fork truck tip enters.

A spy of the present invention and advantage unique partition piece for providing cracking resistance to open, please especially with reference to Fig. 3 and 4, partition piece 38 according to the present invention comprises a wood and contains matter core component 42, general 11/2 inch * 31/2 inch * 4 to 8 inches, this member 42 is clipped in the viscous layer press fit between the

plywood member

44,46 of wooden core block 42 tops and lower surface.Be generally, plywood comprises half inch plywood, thus the partition piece that is produced be 21/2 inch * 31/2 inch wide * 4 to 8 inches, that is size can be compared with employed single partition piece in the prior art.Yet be different from that needs are selected, traditional partition piece of personated old man, nothing joint timber, the partition piece that makes according to the present invention can be formed (being rated for 11/2 * 31/2 inch) by 2 * 4 inches column bolts of traditional architecture level to supply with core component, and the outside plywood of traditional CDX is supplied with the plywood member, and an outside waterproof viscose glue is as the lamination viscose glue.The last partition piece of being constructed according to the present invention, its manufacturing is more not expensive, the partition piece of the prior art that makes with selected, personated old man, nothing joint timber relatively, it is far beyond be durable, and splits because of bump and/or nailing far beyond difficult.

Please refer to Fig. 5 and 6, expression one case that makes according to the present invention among the figure, and comprise and be generally with the solid plywood of a slice, and four upstanding walls, 52 formed casees bottoms 50, (in Fig. 5 only visible its two), it forms the opening box 54 of a conventional construction with substrate 50 and corner posts (not shown).Case bottom 50 comprises pair of slide assembly 56, respectively comprises slide plate 58 and partition block assembly 60.As the situation of existing pallet assembly, conventional boxes adopts the solid slug that makes with selected, personated old man, nothing joint timber to form the partition piece that supplies the slide plate assembly.As the characteristic as shown in it, according to the present invention, partition piece 60 comprises and describes in detail with the embodiment that cooperates Fig. 2 of the present invention and at the identical lamination partition of the lamination partition piece piece shown in Fig. 3,4.As seen in fig. 5, each slide plate assembly 56 comprises the Three-spacer piece, respectively installs one at each end of slide plate assembly, also has a middle part that is installed in the slide plate assembly.Partition piece 60 via nailing from the case inboard by being fixed to case bottom 50, slide plate 58 is attached to the opposed surface of partition piece by slide plate 58 via nailing simultaneously.As before, this structure allows the most advanced and sophisticated four-way of fork truck to enter.

Also please refer to Fig. 6, the bight of case is preferably (but inessential) to be strengthened by so-called " angle bar " 62 or steel bight bracket, and it is via the nailing cross-over connection and be anchored to the core component 42 of lower skateboard 58, partition piece 38 and the wall 52 of case.

Please refer to Fig. 7 and 8, represent another embodiment of the present invention among the figure, and comprise a case, this case comprises one case bottom 50, and has microscler solid stringer or rotor 63, and its structure is similar to partition piece of the present invention 38.That is elongate beam 63 respectively comprises a microscler core component 64, is generally 2 * 4 inches or 2 * 6 inches architectural grade column bolts, is clipped in viscous layer and is depressed between the lengthy

motion picture plywood

68,70 of core component.As before, slide plate is attached to case bottom 50 by means of nailing by case bottom 50, near the opposite edges of case bottom.If wish, can adopt three slide plate 63 similar with slide plate 63 ', for the center of support case.If wish, also can adopt metal bight bracket or the angle bar 72 (ask for an interview Fig. 6) similar to bight bracket 62, in order to strengthening the bight, and can adopt a flat bracket or " angle bar " 74 so that the center slide plate is stable.The structure that is produced provides most advanced and sophisticated two-way the entering of fork truck.If wish, slide plate can for be as at the breach shown in 75 the dotted line, enter with the four-way that the fork truck tip is provided.

The present invention easily gives modification.For example, laminate panels notion of the present invention should be used for structure for building template or similar fastening element, for example concrete blinding and/or interim fixing wall.Show a kind of so structure among Fig. 9.Please refer to Fig. 9, building template comprises a plywood sheet 80, and many fastening elements 82 are mounted thereon.Fastening element 82 is similar to the rotor 63 of Fig. 7 embodiment, and comprising a wooden core component 84, this member for example is depressed between the

outside plywood member

86,86 of rectangular architectural grade of wooden core component 84 and is formed by be clipped in viscous layer with 2 * 4 inches or 2 * 6 inches architectural grade column bolt timber.As before, the reinforced column bolt via nailing from panel outside by panel and enter lamination strenthening member and be fixed to panel 80.The present invention also should build timber in order to form, for example, for use as sleeper, roof, rafter, and analogue.In this situation, as before, an architectural grade column bolt such as 2 * 6,2 * 8,2 * 10 or analogue be clipped between the sticking outside plywood member of rectangular architectural grade that is stacked to wooden core component.Can for the edge opposite side that is lay two 2 * 4 architectural grade column bolts or similar architectural grade bolt, and viscous layer is pressed between the outside plywood member, to form the building timber of a desired size.Compare with traditional timber of comparability size, the last building timber that is made according to the present invention has the anti-twist and bending resistance of improvement, and since more low-quality wooden can be in order to form according to core component of the present invention, so more traditional usually timber is not for more expensive.

The space block that makes according to the present invention is once by means of the nailing test cracking resistance property opened.Once 24 pieces of 3 inches screws were driven in, 12 pieces are driven to a side, and enter 21/2 * 31/2 * 5 inches laminate panels that make according to the present invention.Do not seen and having split.

Can make various variations according to foregoing invention, and not depart from spirit and the scope that defines and limit by following claim.

Claims

1. pallet, comprise a napex bearing bed and a bottom layer, make this top layer and bottom spaced from each other by wooden partition piece, its improvement part is: this wooden partition piece comprises by a solid wooden core component (42) and is clipped in several laminated woods (44 that viscous layer is depressed into core component, 46) the preforming piece (38) that is constituted between, and this preforming piece is anchored to this top layer and bottom (30,40) by means of the mechanical type securing device.

2. pallet according to claim 1, and comprise a whole case (54) in addition, also comprise the reinforcement bracket (62) of metal cross-over connection case and partition piece (60) if desired.

3. pallet, comprise one deck and have a top carrying surface and a lower surface, and the many skateboard components that are fixed to lower surface, its improvement part is: skateboard component (63) comprises by one and is clipped in the plywood layer (68 that viscous layer is depressed into the core apparent surface, 70) the preforming member that the wooden core component (64) between is constituted, and this preforming member is anchored to this layer (50) by means of the mechanical type securing device.

4. pallet according to claim 3, and comprise a whole case in addition, the metal that also comprises cross-over connection case and skateboard component (63) is if desired strengthened bracket (62).

5. case, comprise a top bearing bed and a bottom, this top layer and bottom are spaced from each other by wooden partition piece, its improvement part is: this wooden partition piece comprises and is clipped in viscous layer by one and is depressed into the preforming piece that the solid wooden core component (60) between several laminated woods of core component is constituted, and this preforming piece is anchored to this top layer and bottom (50 by the mechanical type securing device.58)。

6. case according to claim 5, and the metal that comprises cross-over connection case and partition piece is in addition strengthened bracket (62).

7. case, comprise one deck one a top carrying surface and a lower surface are arranged, and the many skateboard components that are fixed to lower surface, its improvement part is: skateboard component comprises each and is clipped in the plywood layer (44 that viscous layer is depressed into the core apparent surface by one, 46) the preforming member that the wooden core (42) between is constituted, and this preforming member is anchored to this layer by the mechanical type securing device.

8. according to case as claimed in claim 7, and the metal that comprises cross-over connection case and skateboard component is in addition strengthened bracket (62).

9. building template, comprise one deck one end face and bottom surface are arranged, and many strenthening members that are fixed to lower surface, its improvement part is: strenthening member (82) comprises each and is depressed into the preforming member that the wooden core (84) between core apparent surface's the plywood layer (86,88) is constituted by being clipped in viscous layer, and this preforming member is anchored to this layer (80) by the mechanical type securing device.

10. building template according to claim 9, wherein wooden core (84) comprise at least two microscler wooden column bolts.

11. a structure element comprises one and is clipped in viscous layer and is depressed into solid wooden core component (42) between the plywood layer (44,46) of the relative wall of core component.