DE2155627A1 - Transport pallet - Google Patents

Description

Templethene Limited, Pieldhouse Lane, Marlow (Buckinghamshire )/England

Transport pallet

The invention relates to transport pallets or similar load-bearing structures, such as laäeplatten or Racks or containers that are used for transport and / or storage or items that are made up of a the load-bearing part or a surface exist, in particular to facilitate handling and the Transportes is provided with carriers.

According to the invention a transport pallet is created which is characterized in that it is a load-bearing one Has part, the lower surface of which can be brought into engagement with removable Trä like, the lower Surface is provided with a plurality of profiled sockets and each carrier is correspondingly formed at one end and engages one of the sockets. The load-bearing part and the beams are preferably made of synthetic material cast under pressure or by injection, for example thermoplastic material, such as polyethylene or polypropylene; a filling material and / or a reinforcing material can be added as desired to increase the load capacity or to reduce the material costs, for example.

The fee schedule of the German Chamber of Patent Attorneys applies to the contract <Original performance and payment: Nuremberg. Conversations on the telephone have no legally binding effect.

If desired, parts of the transport pallet can be cast from blends or copolymers of polyethylene or polypropylene or vinyl polymers; it can vinyl polymers such as polyvinyl chloride can also be used. The choice of material is required by the physical properties including elasticity and rigidity determined to a form-fitting body To ensure engagement between the beams and the load-bearing parts.

In a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention, each carrier is carried by a longitudinal beam or support beam and has projections ₃ which engage with the interior of the socket on the lower surface of the load-bearing part and are locked by interlocking, the Parts can easily be separated by spreading apart or popping open. The beams may, for example, have three fitted support beams, each support beam connecting a suitable number of supports. In a modified Ausfüh approximately several support beams are connected to form a frame by which the transport pallet is supported.

Transport pallets produced according to the invention have opposite known a number of advantages. The transport pallets are made by casting a thermoplastic material dense and light, and at the same time are detrimental to shock, corrosion, atmospheric agents and others Constant effects. By interlocking connections between the support beams and the platform, a rigid connection of the parts made before their use and a simple subsequent separation made them, wherein the support beams and the transport pallets independently of each other for transport or storage if they cannot be used, can be stacked on top of each other. A particular advantage of the described transport pa-

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lette consists in .that it is a Intervention for the arms or tines of lever and delivery devices from any side of the assembled transport pallet.

Thermoplastic materials suitable for molding the parts of the load-bearing structure already mentioned above; the type of filler added to reinforce the transport pallet is a matter of choice for the manufacturer of the pallet, the container or a similar structure. The filling material is preferably of fibrous shape, such as z..B. finely divided or finely divided tes Paper or textile fibers. Other fibrous materials such as asbestos, glass fibers, synthetically produced organic threads or the like can also be used; in certain cases it can be desirable be to use wood or metal to reinforce or stiffen parts of the transport pallet in order to achieve a To promote support of the loads and to avoid sagging and creeping of the plastic material.

Further features and advantages of the invention are explained in more detail using an exemplary embodiment in the drawing. Ϊ shows

1 shows a partial plan view of the underside of a transport pallet;

FIG. 2 shows a section along the line II-II according to FIG. 1,

Fig. 3 is a partial plan view of the underside of a Support beam;

Fig. 4 shows an axial section along the line IV-IV Fig. 3;

5 shows a section through a transport pallet and two carriers, and

6 shows an axial section corresponding to that in FIG. 4 of a further embodiment of an inventive Carrier.

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Like in Pig. 1 and 2, the load-bearing part consists of a platform 1, which is generally a rectangular part, the load-bearing upper surface 2 being flat and may be in one piece, or cut out Can have areas to reduce the weight of the material or to allow air to circulate allow. The pallet 1 is made of synthetic material by injection or under pressure and has on its lower surface 3 a plurality of generally frustoconical lugs 4, the narrower ones Ends of the bottom 3 of the pallet are adjacent.

ψ Each base 4 has an annular groove 6 at its narrower end; the bases are arranged separated from one another over the platform in a predetermined and preferably symmetrical arrangement. For example, in a transport pallet from 120 mm to 1000 mm according to FIG. 1, nine such bases are distributed over the underside of the platform, the bases 4 being symmetrically distributed, one at each corner, one on the middle of each side and one in the center the plate or platform 1.

If it is desired, reinforcing ribs 6 can be together with the underside of the transport pallet between the pedestals are eaten; anti-slip ribs may be formed on the top surface of the plate be.

A corresponding number of carriers 7 are provided accordingly and - as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 - is each The beam is frustoconical and is supported by a support beam 8 at its base or at its wider end. As shown in Figures 3 and 4, the narrower end is of each support part 7 bulges with an annular edge or provided with a rim 9; this edge is designed in such a way that it corresponds to an annular recess 10 and that can be fitted into each one

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Base 4 - as shown in Fig. 2 and 5 - is provided is.

In a further embodiment - as in Fig. 6 Darge provides the support is cylindrical, the formation 9 being provided at one end, as shown is.

It is easy to see that the number and spacing of the carriers 7 correspond to the size and shape of the pallet is chosen, the length of each support beam 8 being adapted accordingly.

In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, each support beam 8 is also made of a corresponding thermoplastic The material is cast as a unit with one or more beams that are in this way supported by the Support beams are connected. Each support beam 8 is generally a flat beam or as a truss type (Web-shaped) part formed, its length is such that it is between any number of sockets 4 extends.

As shown in FIGS. 5 to 5, the carriers 7 are hollow and have on their inner wall side three equidistant from one another, in an axial direction Direction of aligned ribs 11 of shorter length than the interior of a carrier 7. The inner ribs are then omitted when the formation of the carrier, - as shown in Fig. β - is.

The inner ribs 11 in the interior of each beam 7 allow the loose support beams 8 together for the stacking or the transport can be nested, as is partially shown in Fig. 5, wherein the ends of the ribs 11 stand against the closed En new of the adjacent support parts, so that prevented is that the support beams move into each other or n, aod that they easily from each other when necessary can be.

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In the present embodiment, three support beams 8 are required, each having three beams J. To assemble a transport pallet, it is only necessary in a simple manner to arrange three carriers on a beam 'with three sockets on the platform 1 and to press both parts together until the edges Q snap into the support parts and with the grooves 5 in the sockets 4 come into engagement «To separate the arrangement, it is only necessary in a simple manner to press the carrier out of the base or to let it spring out Pouring the parts of the transport pallet is made use of.

In a modified embodiment of the invention are the narrower ends of the carrier 7 with a groove instead a rim 9, the groove having a separate Q-ring made of rubber, for example exists and which allows an adaptation of the approach and the carrier.

Palis it is desired, the beams can be made of wood or be made of another suitable material, which will be attached to the support beam; the invention is too "'applicable to other types of load-bearing arrangements, such as loading plates or racks or containers, with the base into which the carriers snap as a unit are cast or attached to the underside of the load-bearing part.

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Claims (1)

Expectations Transport pallet, characterized in that it comprises a load-bearing part, the lower surface of which can be brought into engagement with removable supports, that the lower surface comprises a plurality of correspondingly shaped bases and each support has a corresponding configuration at one end with a base is engaged. 2.) Transport pallet according to claim 1, characterized in that the load-bearing part has a platform, the lower surface of which has a plurality of sockets, that the sockets are frustoconical in shape and with their narrower ends of this lower surface are adjacent that each socket with its narrower end is adjacent the lower surface and each socket has an inner annular groove near the narrower end. 5) Transport pallet according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that each support part is arranged on a support beam. 4.) Transport pallet according to one of claims 1 to ^, because durcr ^ indicates that each support part is sylinderforrni ^ unl is provided at one end with an outer annular formation which corresponds to the inner groove in the base. 5.) Transport pallet according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that a support beam connects two or more beams with each other, each beam being frustoconical and with its wider end or base adjacent to the support beam, and the narrower end of the support is provided with an outer annular shape which corresponds to the inner groove in the base. BAD OBIOINAL 209822/06 (H. 6.) Transport pallet according to claim 5>dadurcx'i characterized, that each carrier is open and hollow at its base, νιο in the interior of each carrier at least one axially extending rib auiv / eist. ? '.) Transport pallet according to one of the preceding claims, ^ d ^ avob ^^ ekeißnzelQhn ^ tj ^^^^ that the parts of the transport pallet are made of synthetic material and are produced by a melting process under pressure. 8.) Transport pallet according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the parts of the pallet are made of a synthetic plastic material by a casting process with injection. 9.) A transport pallet according to claim 7 or t, characterized in that the synthetic material or synthe diagram plastic material comprises a filler material. 10.) Transport pallet according to one of claims 7 to 9,
characterized in that the parts of the transport pallet have stiffening or reinforcing means which
are incorporated into the material of these parts. 209822/0604 Lee rs e ί te