This application claims priority of Taiwanese Patent Application No. 100208880, filed on May 18, 2011, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a plastic pallet, more particularly to a reinforced plastic pallet.
2. Description of the Related Art
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An object of the present invention is to provide a reinforced plastic pallet which has a reliable structural strength to prolong the service life.
According to this invention, the reinforced plastic pallet includes a modular platform including top and bottom major walls spaced apart from each other by a major space. The top major wall has top left and right ends opposite to each other in a transverse direction, and left and right stacked segments adjacent to the top left and right ends, respectively. Each of the left and right stacked segments has a plurality of depression regions displaced from each other in a longitudinal direction. The bottom major wall has bottom left and right ends joining the top left and right ends, respectively, and left and right held segments, each having a plurality of supported regions that are displaced from each other in the longitudinal direction to confront respectively the depression regions. A hollow left spacer unit includes a plurality of left spacers extending respectively and downwardly from the supported regions of the left held segment. Each of the left spacers has a left base region which is in spatial communication with the major space and which confronts the corresponding depression region. A hollow right spacer unit includes a plurality of right spacers extending respectively and downwardly from the supported regions of the right held segment. Each of the right spacers has a right base region which is in spatial communication with the major space and which confronts the corresponding depression region. A plurality of left hollow struts each extends upwardly from the left base region through the corresponding depression region, and has a left open end joining with the corresponding depression region. A plurality of right hollow struts each extends upwardly from the right base region through the corresponding depression region, and has a right open end joining with the corresponding depression region. With the hollow struts, the structural strength of the left and right spacer units can be increased so as to prevent deformation thereof when the plastic pallet is subjected to a heavy load.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment of the invention, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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Each of the left and right spacers 41 extends downwardly from a respective one of the supported regions 22 and has a base region 42 in spatial communication with the major space 6 and confronting the corresponding depression region 311. Each of the left and right spacer units 4 further has a plurality of concavity regions 43 each disposed between two adjacent ones of the base regions 42. As shown in
In this embodiment, a middle portion 27 of the bottom major wall 2 may have a plurality of supported regions 22, and a plurality of middle spacers 41 may be configured to extend downwardly from the supported regions 22 and have base and concavity regions 42, 43 alternately arranged in the longitudinal direction (Y). The middle portion 27 further has left and right elevated segments 28 disposed adjacent to the left and right held segments 21, respectively, and confronting and spaced apart from the left and right load segments 312, respectively, by the major space 6. The left and right elevated segments 28 respectively cooperate with the left and right spacer units 4 to define left and right fork insertion spaces 23, respectively.
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Since the elongated left and right spacer units 4 which have a relatively large area contact with the ground surface can bear evenly against a heavy load that is supported by the platform 10, deformation and inclination of the left and right spacer units 4 can be prevented. By virtue of the hollow struts 5, 9, the strut halves 71, 72, and the hollow crossbeams 281, 282, the structural strength of the reinforced plastic pallet can be increased. Moreover, when a plurality of plastic pallets are stacked, the base regions 42 of the spacers 41 of an upper plastic pallet are received respectively in the depression regions 311 of the top major wall 3 of a lower plastic pallet, and the concavity regions 43 of the upper plastic pallet are engaged respectively with the convexity regions 33 of the lower plastic pallet. Hence, the plastic pallets can be stacked firmly in the upper direction.
While the present invention has been described in connection with what is considered the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is understood that this invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiment but is intended to cover various arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the broadest interpretations and equivalent arrangements.
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