METAL PALLET SECTION STEEL STRUCTURE
A metal pallet section steel structure includes a plurality of upper surface boards, each of the upper surface boards having a carrying surface facing upwards and arranged at intervals; and a support unit, which includes two outer support poles and an inner support pole. The outer support poles are connected to two opposite sides of the bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards. The inner support pole is connected to the center of the bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards. An outer side of a top surface of each of the outer support poles is protruded upwards to form a cut protection portion, which is located at two sides of each of the upper surface boards. Each of the cut protection portions has a top flush with the carrying surface of the upper surface boards.
A prior art metal deck board A of a prior art metal pallet is commonly made by folding and processing a metal plate. The metal plate often has edges that are very sharp. To prevent the edges of the prior art metal deck board A from cutting personnel, several ways can be implemented. For example, in
Further, the prior art metal deck board A that is used in upper and lower layers of the prior art metal pallet is often an inverted U-shaped steel material having the same shape, which does not have a strength of supporting that is the same as that of a tubular steel and may have an upward-facing trough formed in the prior art metal deck board A of the lower layer, in which water or dust may be easily accumulated, resulting environmental pollution.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe primary objective of the present invention is to provide a metal pallet section steel structure, which changes the structure of supporting section steels of a pallet to form an integrated cut protection portion, so as to achieve high level of safety with a reduced additional cost and being usable in combination with a surface board structure of a high strength.
To achieve the above objective, the present invention provides a metal pallet section steel structure, which comprises a plurality of upper surface boards, each of the upper surface boards having a carrying surface facing upwards and arranged at intervals; and a support unit, which comprises two outer support poles and at least one inner support pole, the outer support poles being respectively connected to two opposite sides of a bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards, the inner support pole being connected to the bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards and located between the outer support poles, an outer side of a top surface of each of the outer support poles being protruded upwards to form a cut protection portion, the cut protection portions being respectively located at two sides of each of the upper surface boards, a top of each of the cut protection portions being flush with the carrying surface of each of the upper surface boards, each of the cut protection portions being integrally formed with the outer support poles. The above embodiment is a one-way pallet that allows a forklift to enter and exit from a fixed direction and is of a single-layer structure including only the upper surface boards (his being generally referred to as a stringer pallet).
In an embodiment of a one-way pallet, an outer side of the bottom surface of each of the outer support poles is protruded downward to form a cut protection portion, a plurality of ground-contacting bottom boards being arranged at intervals to connect to the bottom surface of each of the outer support poles and the bottom surface of the inner support pole, the cut protection portions being respectively located at two sides of each of the upper surface boards and each of the ground-contacting bottom boards, the ground-contacting bottom boards being parallel to the upper surface boards. The above embodiment is a one-way pallet that allows a forklift to enter and exit from a fixed direction and is of a double-layer structure including the upper surface boards and the ground-contacting bottom boards (this being generally referred to as a block pallet).
In an embodiment of the one-way pallet, each of the outer support poles and the inner support pole can be a section steel having a lateral opening (similar to a C-channel) or a section steel of an enclosed tubular structure according to the requirement of the load to be carried. Each of the cut protection portions presents a quadrilateral tubular structure and is formed by folding the section steel, the cut protection portion being integrally formed with the outer support poles.
An embodiment of a two-way pallet that allows a forklift to enter and exit from two directions comprises a plurality of upper surface boards, each of the upper surface boards having a carrying surface facing upwards and arranged at intervals; and a support unit, which comprises two external connecting members, at least one internal connecting member, at least six outer support poles, at least three inner support poles, and at least three ground-contacting bottom boards, the external connecting members being respectively connected to two opposite sides of a bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards, an outer side of a top surface of each of the external connecting members being protruded upwards to form a cut protection portion, the cut protection portions being respectively located at two sides of each of the upper surface boards, each of the cut protection portions having a top that is flush with the carrying surface of each of the upper surface boards, a bottom surface of each of the two external connecting members being connected to three of the outer support poles that are arranged at intervals, the internal connecting member being connected to the bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards and located between the external connecting members, a bottom surface of the internal connecting member being connected to the three inner support poles that are arranged at intervals, two of the ground-contacting bottom boards being respectively connected to bottom ends of the outer support poles of the bottom surfaces of the two external connecting members, one of the ground-contacting bottom boards being connected to bottom ends of the inner support poles of the bottom surface of the internal connecting member. The above embodiment is of a structure that the outer support poles at two outer sides are not connected to the inner support poles, this being generally referred to as a two-way stringer pallet.
In an embodiment of a two-way pallet, a ground-contacting bottom board is connected between the bottom end of each of the inner support poles and each of the two outer support poles at right and left sides to form a so-called two-way block pallet.
In each embodiment of two-way pallet, each of the external connecting members and the internal connecting member is formed by folding a steel plate such that two, left and right sides of a bottom end of each of the external connecting members and the internal connecting member are respectively formed with a supporting portion, and each of the supporting portions can be of an enclosed tubular structure or having a lateral opening facing inwardly and the configuration of the supporting portions can be changed according to the requirement for the load to be carried. The cut protection portion can be integrally formed with the external connecting members.
In an embodiment that uses ground-contacting bottom boards, two opposite sides of a bottom end of each of the ground-contacting bottom boards are extended inwardly for a predetermined distance and then vertically extended upwards to form a ground-contacting supporting portion, and the ground-contacting supporting portions each abut against a top surface of the ground-contacting bottom boards, each of the ground-contacting bottom boards having two sides each forming a slope. The ground-contacting supporting portions help increase the load carried by the ground-contacting bottom boards, and the slopes on the two sides make wheels of a pallet truck, when approaching, not easily colliding the ground-contacting bottom boards, and the forks of the forklift, when running into the two sides of the ground-contacting bottom boards, can be expelled away without causing damage to the ground-contacting bottom boards. Two sides of a bottom end of each of the ground-contacting bottom boards are also extended inwardly to the center of the ground-contacting bottom board and then vertically extended upwards to form a ground-contacting supporting portion, so that the ground-contacting supporting portions mutually abut against each other. The ground-contacting bottom boards of each embodiment can be made in a manner of being integrally formed as a one-piece structure.
In each embodiment, two sides of each of the upper surface boards are bent inwardly to form at least one reinforcement portion, the reinforcement portion being in contact with an inner side of the upper surface board. Alternatively, the upper surface boards are each of a rectangular shape having two long edges and two short edges, each of the long edges being extended downward at a predetermined angle for a predetermined length and then extended horizontally toward an inner side of the carrying surface to reach a center of the carrying surface and forming a seam, two side edges of the seam being extended toward the carrying surface to each form a surface board supporting portion, the surface board supporting portions mutually abutting against each other, at least one of the surface board supporting portions abutting against a bottom of the carrying surface. The surface board supporting portions help increase the load that the upper surface boards may carry, and it is also possible that the two surface board supporting portions are both arranged to abut against the bottom of the carrying surface, and each of the surface board supporting portion may be provided with a supporting edge fold to increase the area abutting against the carrying surface to further increase the load that the upper surface boards may carry. The upper surface boards of each embodiment can be made in a manner of being integrally formed as a one-piece structure
The advantages of the present invention are that the two sides of the metal pallet are each provided with an integrally-formed cut protection portion, which can completely solve the problem that an edge of a metal pallet may cut an operator under a condition of minimum increase of the cost and can also reduce the potential risk that the ground-contacting bottom boards are hit and deformed by a pallet truck or a forklift and also provides various example for adjusting the load carrying strength of a pallet.
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Two ends of each of the upper surface boards 1 are each bent to form a rounded corner, and each of the cut protection portions 3 does not have an exposed edge. Thus, the present invention is completely devoid of any risk of cutting an operator and the work field safety is enhanced.
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In the fifth embodiment, there is only one internal connecting member 52, and thus, the internal connecting member 52 is connected to the center of the bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards 1. If the number of the internal connecting member 52 is increased, the internal connecting members 52 can be arranged at appropriate intervals and each of the internal connecting members 52 can be connected, at the bottom surface thereof, to three or more inner support poles 22. In the fifth embodiment, each of the external connecting members 51 is connected, at the bottom surface thereof, to three of the outer support poles 21, and the internal connecting member 52 is also connected, at the bottom surface thereof, to three inner support poles 22. If the number of the outer support poles 21 connected to each of the external connecting members 51 is increased, the number of the inner support poles 22 connected to the internal connecting member 52 can also be increased at the same time.
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In the fifth embodiment, two opposite sides of the bottom end of each of the ground-contacting bottom boards 4 are each inwardly extended for a predetermined distance and then vertically extended upwards to form a ground-contacting supporting portion 41, and each of the ground-contacting supporting portions 41 abuts against the top surface of the ground-contacting bottom board 4. Each of the ground-contacting bottom boards 4 has two sides each forming a slope. The ground-contacting supporting portion 41 helps increase the load carried by the ground-contacting bottom board 4, and the slopes on the two sides make wheels of a pallet truck, when approaching, not easily colliding the ground-contacting bottom board 4, and the forks of the forklift, when running into the two sides of the ground-contacting bottom board 4, can be expelled away without causing damage to the ground-contacting bottom board 4. Two sides of the bottom of each of the outer support poles 21 and each of the inner support poles 22 are similarly provided with slopes corresponding to the slopes on the two sides of the ground-contacting bottom board 4.
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The advantages of the present invention are that the two sides of the metal pallet are each provided with an integrally-formed cut protection portion 3, which can completely solve the problem that an edge of a metal pallet may cut an operator under a condition of minimum increase of the cost and can also reduce the potential risk that the ground-contacting bottom boards 4 are hit and deformed by a pallet truck or a forklift and also provides various example for adjusting the load carrying strength of a pallet.
Claims
1. A metal pallet section steel structure, comprising:
- a plurality of upper surface boards, each of the upper surface boards having a carrying surface facing upwards and arranged at intervals; and
- a support unit, which comprises two outer support poles and at least one inner support pole, the outer support poles being respectively connected to two opposite sides of a bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards, the inner support pole being connected to the bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards and located between the outer support poles, an outer side of a top surface of each of the outer support poles being protruded upwards to form a cut protection portion, the cut protection portions being respectively located at two sides of each of the upper surface boards, a top of each of the cut protection portions being flush with the carrying surface of each of the upper surface boards.
2. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 1, wherein an outer side of the bottom surface of each of the outer support poles is protruded downward to form a cut protection portion, a plurality of ground-contacting bottom boards being arranged at intervals to connect to the bottom surface of each of the outer support poles and the bottom surface of the inner support pole, the cut protection portions being respectively located at two sides of each of the upper surface boards and each of the ground-contacting bottom boards, the ground-contacting bottom boards being parallel to the upper surface boards.
3. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 1, wherein each of the outer support poles and the inner support pole comprises a section steel having a lateral opening.
4. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 1, wherein each of the outer support poles and the inner support pole is a section steel of an enclosed tubular structure.
5. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 2, wherein each of the cut protection portions presents a quadrilateral tubular structure.
6. A metal pallet section steel structure, comprising:
- a plurality of upper surface boards, each of the upper surface boards having a carrying surface facing upwards and arranged at intervals; and
- a support unit, which comprises two external connecting members, at least one internal connecting member, at least six outer support poles, at least three inner support poles, and at least three ground-contacting bottom boards, the external connecting members being respectively connected to two opposite sides of a bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards, an outer side of a top surface of each of the external connecting members being protruded upwards to form a cut protection portion, the cut protection portions being respectively located at two sides of each of the upper surface boards, each of the cut protection portions having a top that is flush with the carrying surface of each of the upper surface boards, a bottom surface of each of the two external connecting members being connected to three of the outer support poles that are arranged at intervals, the internal connecting member being connected to the bottom surface of each of the upper surface boards and located between the external connecting members, a bottom surface of the internal connecting member being connected to the three inner support poles that are arranged at intervals, two of the ground-contacting bottom boards being respectively connected to bottom ends of the outer support poles of the bottom surfaces of the two external connecting members, one of the ground-contacting bottom boards being connected to bottom ends of the inner support poles of the bottom surface of the internal connecting member.
7. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 6, wherein a ground-contacting bottom board is connected between the bottom end of each of the inner support poles and each of the two outer support poles at right and left sides.
8. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 6, wherein two sides of a bottom end of each of the external connecting members and the internal connecting member are each formed with a supporting portion, and each of the supporting portions is of an enclosed tubular structure.
9. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 6, wherein two sides of a bottom end of each of the external connecting members and the internal connecting member are each formed with a supporting portion, and each of the supporting portions is formed with a lateral opening facing inwards.
10. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 6, wherein two opposite sides of a bottom end of each of the ground-contacting bottom boards are extended inwardly for a predetermined distance and then vertically extended upwards to form a ground-contacting supporting portion, and the ground-contacting supporting portions each abut against a top surface of the ground-contacting bottom board, each of the ground-contacting bottom boards having two sides each forming a slope.
11. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 6, wherein two opposite sides of a bottom end of each of the ground-contacting bottom boards are extended inwardly to a center of the ground-contacting bottom board and then vertically extended upwards to form a ground-contacting supporting portion, the ground-contacting supporting portions being arranged to mutually abut against each other, and the ground-contacting supporting portion abutting against a top surface of the ground-contacting bottom board, each of the ground-contacting bottom boards having two side each forming a slope.
12. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 6, wherein each of the upper surface boards is of a rectangular shape having two long edges and two short edges, each of the long edges being extended downward at a predetermined angle for a predetermined length and then extended horizontally toward an inner side of the carrying surface to reach a center of the carrying surface and forming a seam, two side edges of the seam being extended toward the carrying surface to each form a surface board supporting portion, the surface board supporting portions mutually abutting against each other, at least one of the surface board supporting portions abutting against a bottom of the carrying surface.
13. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 12, wherein the one of the surface board supporting portions that abuts against the bottom of the carrying surface is provided with a supporting edge fold abutting against the bottom of the carrying surface.
14. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 12, wherein each of the surface board supporting portions abuts the bottom of the carrying surface.
15. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 14, wherein each of the surface board supporting portions has a supporting edge fold abutting against the bottom of the carrying surface.
16. The metal pallet section steel structure according to claim 6, wherein two sides of each of the upper surface boards are inwardly folded to form at least one reinforcement portion, and the reinforcement portion is in contact with an inner side of the upper surface board.
Type: Application
Filed: Jan 16, 2025
Publication Date: Jul 16, 2026
Inventor: PIN LAN (Taoyuan City)
Application Number: 19/026,250