JP2003063532A - Pallet and container for cargo handling and transportation - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pallet for cargo handling and transportation in which steel members are used and which is, light in weight and capable of incorporating a container, and to provide a container incorporated therein. SOLUTION: The pallet comprises baseboards 1 disposed in the form of a slatted drainboard and supported by baseboard support legs 2. The respective baseboards 1 are of shape material M having tvotrusive and recessed bars 3 on the surface thereof along the longitudinal direction thereof, and the recessed bars 3a formed on the surface of the baseboards 1 serve as channels into which the side walls or partitioning walls of a container to be incorporated on the pallet are inserted. The baseboard support legs 2 are integrally assembled with spaces 4 intervened therebetween, fitted on the back faces of two or more of the baseboards 1 disposed in the form of a slatted drainboad, crossing them, forming space, under the baseboards 1, for the forks of a forklift to be inserted thereinto. For the material of the baseboards 1 and the baseboard support legs 2, the shape material M is commonly used that is made of a belt-like steel plate on which the protrusive and recessed bars are shaped by forming process.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pallet for loading / transporting and storing goods by using a fork and a crane, and a structure of a container assembled to the pallet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The above-mentioned pallet is in the shape of a grid, and is used for loading, transporting, and storing the articles stacked on the pallet as a unit load of about 500 kg or 1 ton. A pallet is a slatted platform suitable for inserting forks and loading and unloading cranes. In the past, most of the pallets were wooden, including the containers to be mounted on the pallet.

However, there is a problem of pests as a problem of pallets and containers made of wood, especially conifers. That is, when the wood is processed into pallets, nematodes such as pine wood nematodes that live on the trunks of conifers continue to live in the materials of the pallets as they are, or eggs are hatched by being laid on the wood and the pallets are hatched. There is a risk that the trees of the importing country of the goods exported by using them will be damaged by nematodes.

This is not limited to pallets, and the same applies to containers combined with pallets. Nematodes may continue to live in the material of the container, or they may be spawned on timber and the eggs may hatch, adversely affecting the trees of the importing country of the goods.

For these reasons, pallets made of wood, synthetic resin or steel pallets are used.
The actual situation is that the container made of steel is used.

[0006]

By changing the material of the pallet or container from wood to synthetic resin or steel, it is possible to increase the strength without rot like wood. If there is,
Since the weight became large, the characteristics of synthetic resin and steel as materials were not particularly utilized.

An object of the present invention is to provide a light-duty pallet for cargo handling / transportation, which uses a steel material as a material, and is capable of assembling the container, and a container attached to the pallet.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, the pallet according to the present invention is a pallet for cargo handling / transportation having base plates arranged in the shape of a saw, each base plate having a surface It is a mold material having an uneven line along the length direction, and the concave line formed on the surface of the base plate serves as a groove into which a side wall or a partition wall of a container to be assembled on a pallet is inserted.

Further, it has a base leg, and the base leg is assembled integrally by interposing a spacer between a pair of mold members, and is attached to the lower surface thereof across two or more base plates arranged in the shape of a saw. A space for inserting a fork of a forklift is formed below the base plate.

Further, the mold material of each base plate and base leg has an uneven strip formed by forming on a strip steel plate.

Further, in the container assembled on the pallet for cargo handling / transportation, the side wall of the container is cardboard and is bent in a square shape, and the side wall of the pair in the first direction is a recess of the base plate. The pair of side walls in the second direction are supported on the base legs, and the upper openings of the four side walls are covered.

Further, each base plate has at least two recesses in parallel, the partition walls are cardboard paper, and the partition walls in the first direction and the partition walls in the second direction intersect each other. In combination, the partition wall in the first direction is inserted into the groove of the base plate parallel to the side wall in the first direction of the container.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, a cargo handling / transportation pallet P according to the present invention is composed of a combination of a plurality of base plates 1 and a plurality of base legs 2 supporting each base plate 1, as in a normal pallet. .

As shown in FIG. 2, the base plate 1 and the base leg 2 are formed by a band-shaped steel plate such as stainless steel, and one or two concavo-convex lines 3 are formed along the length of the band-shaped steel plate. There is a strip steel plate cut into a predetermined size according to the size of the pallet P.

In FIG. 2, the base plate 1 has one mold material M.
As shown in FIG. 3, it is supported on three base legs 2 and arranged in a saw-like shape at regular intervals. The recessed lines 3a and 3b formed on the surface of the mold material of the base plate 1 serve as grooves into which the side wall or the partition wall of the container assembled on the pallet P is inserted as described later. The recessed line may be one line, but two or more lines are provided to increase the strength of the mold material, and to prepare for insertion of the side wall of the container and the partition wall.

In FIG. 2, the base leg 2 is a pair of mold members M, M.
And a spacer 4 are combined, the spacer 4 is interposed between the pair of mold members M, M to secure a constant rising height required for the pallet P, and the pair of mold members M, M
And the spacer 4 are integrally assembled by welding or the like.

The base leg 2 is attached to the lower surface of the base plate 1 by welding or the like across two or more base plates 1, 1, ... Arranged in a saw-like shape as shown in FIG. It forms an insertion space for the fork of a forklift.

FIG. 4 shows a container assembled to the cargo handling / transporting pallet P according to the present invention. In the present invention, one cardboard paper B is used for the side wall of the container 5. The cardboard paper B has a predetermined folding line L
5, the pair of side wall portions W1 in the first direction (front and rear surfaces) are inserted into the recessed ridges 3a of the base plate 1 located at both ends of the pallet P as shown in FIG. The pair of side walls W2 in the direction (left and right side surfaces) are supported on the base leg 2 and assembled on the pallet P to retain the shape, and the upper openings of the four side walls of the container are covered with a cover plate 6 prepared separately. .

When partitioning the inside of the container into two or more partition walls, a pair of cardboard paper is used for the partition wall 7 as shown in FIG. 6, and the cut lines (not shown) attached to the cardboard paper are inserted into each other. A partition wall 7a in the first direction (horizontal direction) and a partition wall 7b in the second direction (longitudinal direction) intersecting each other in a cross shape and integrally coupled are used.

At the time of mounting, the lower edge of the partition wall 7a in the first direction is placed in the remaining recess 3b of the two recesses 3a, 3b formed on the base plate 1 at both ends as shown in FIG. To the pallet P by inserting it parallel to the side wall portion W1 in the first direction of the container, and further covering the side wall of the container 5 thereon, and as shown in FIG. 4, a pair of side walls in the first direction (front and rear surfaces). Part W
The lower edge of 1 is inserted into the other recess 3a of the base plate 1, and the upper opening of the four side walls of the container is covered with the cover plate 6 to complete the container assembly.

In the present invention, the length, width, number of recesses, depth, and width of the base plate are not particularly limited, but one example of the shape of the base plate mold material is shown below. 〇 Base plate (stainless steel mold material) (See FIGS. 2 and 5 (a)) Length (L) 1070 mm, Width (W) 55 mm 〇 Recessed line (number of recessed lines 2) Width of each recessed line (t) 15 mm , Depth of groove (d) 10m
m, spacing between two recesses (s) 20 mm

As the container 5 to be combined with the base plate 1,
When three-level corrugated cardboard having a thickness of 16 mm was used, when the articles were loaded on the pallet P, the side wall and the partition wall of the container were inserted into the recessed ridges of the pallet P and the shape could be maintained in a certain shape. In addition, when handling and transporting the container,
The container 5 is fastened to the pallet P using a binding band as usual.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, each base plate is made of a mold material having an uneven line along the length direction of the surface thereof, and the concave line is used as a groove for assembling on the pallet side wall of the container. Alternatively, since the partition wall is inserted, it is possible to easily mount the container on the pallet by using cardboard paper for the container.

Further, it is possible to provide a light-weight and high-strength cargo-handling / transporting pallet by commonly using, for each base plate and base legs of the pallet, a mold material having a concavo-convex strip formed by forming a strip-shaped steel plate. Further, a mold material having at least two recesses in parallel is used as each base plate, and there is an effect that partition walls made of cardboard for partitioning the inside of the container can be further combined and fixed to the pallet.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pallet showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of a pallet.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a pallet.

FIG. 4 is a view showing an assembled state of the container.

FIG. 5A is a perspective view of a main part showing a state where cardboard paper is inserted into a recess of a base plate, and FIG. 5B is a front view of the same.

FIG. 6 is a view showing a state in which a partition wall is further assembled together with a pallet container.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 plate 2 legs 3 uneven lines 3a, 3b concave line 4 spacers 5 containers 6 Lid plate 7 division walls B cardboard First wall of W1 container Second wall of W2 container

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A loading / transporting pallet having base plates arranged in a grid shape, each base plate being a mold material having an uneven line along the length direction of the surface, and the surface of the base plate. The pallet for cargo handling / transportation, wherein the concave line formed in is a groove for inserting a side wall or a partition wall of a container to be assembled on the pallet. 2. The base has a base, the base is assembled integrally with a pair of mold members with a spacer interposed therebetween, and the base is attached to the lower surface thereof across two or more base plates arranged in a saw-like shape. The cargo handling / transporting pallet according to claim 1, wherein a space for inserting the fork of the forklift is formed below the base plate. 3. The pallet for cargo handling / transportation according to claim 1, wherein each of the base plates and the base legs has a strip-shaped steel plate having an uneven strip formed by forming. 4. A container assembled to the cargo handling / carrying pallet according to claim 1, wherein the side wall of the container is cardboard, and the side wall of the container is bent in a square shape, and the pair of side walls in the first direction is formed. The container is characterized in that the pair of side walls in the second direction are inserted into the recesses of the base plate and are supported on the base legs, and the upper openings of the four peripheral side walls are covered. 5. Each base plate has at least two recesses in parallel, the partition walls are cardboard paper, and the partition walls in the first direction and the partition walls in the second direction intersect each other. Container according to claim 4, characterized in that the dividing wall in the first direction is inserted parallel to the side wall in the first direction of the container in the recess of the bed plate.