Abstract: An apparatus for forming lightweight pallets from tightly wound single-face corrugated board includes a support for a reel of corrugated board, tensioning apparatus for applying a tensioning force to the corrugated board, slitting and advancing apparatus for slitting the board into narrow strips, an adhesive applicator for applying adhesive to the corrugated medium of said board, a winding reel including a central retractable mandrel about which the strips are initially wound, and further shaped mandrels which are selectively introduced into the winding reel to block the winding of corrugated board in predetermined regions to create shaped openings in the lightweight pallet, and severing apparatus for severing the strips when the winding operation is completed.

Abstract: A pallet comprising a flat top member (1) having depending sides (2, 3, 4, 5,) and a base member comprising eight generally triangular elements (6 to 13, 30 to 33, 40 to 47) each formed from closely packed elements of single-face corrugated paperboard in which the corrugations are perpendicular to the top member (1), and forklift openings (14 to 29) formed in the edges of the base elements. In another form the pallet is formed from a single winding of single-face corrugated paperboard to define a central square opening 52, a pair of opposed generally triangular openings 53, 54, a pair of opposed truncated triangular openings 55, 56 at 90.degree. to the triangular openings 53, 54, a further pair of larger truncated triangular openings 57, 58 located at 45.degree. to the preceding pair, a further pair of slightly larger truncated triangular openings 59, 60 at 90.degree. to the preceding pair, two further opposed pairs of larger triangular openings 61, 62, 63, 64 at 45.degree.