Patent Application
20130118385
(a) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a structure of iron net pallet, which is designed for meeting the requirements of stacking commodities; with the designed structure, the problems and disadvantages of easy to be damaged, moistened or deteriorated associated with the conventional structure of wood-made and paper-made pallets can be solved. The present invention utilizes a metal base frame to support a metal net plane, so not only the structural strength can be reinforced, the stability of placing can also be enhanced, thereby increasing the practicality and application.
(b) Description of Related Art
conventional pallet for stacking commodities used in inventory or transportation is mainly made by assembling woods via nailing, wherein several base materials having larger dimension are used as a support frame on which a plurality of wood plates are arranged and nailed for forming a placement plane, so commodities can be stacked on the placement place formed by the wood plates and the structural strength is supported by the base materials disposed therebelow. However, the wood plates which are used to form the placement plane do not have sufficient thickness thereby providing poor structural strength and limited loading capacity. So when subject to heaving weights of loaded commodities, the wood plates are very easy to be broken. In addition, a wood-made structure has a drawback relative to moisture, when being used in a moist environment, or the loaded commodities may release moisture, or disposed in an outdoor environment for being exposed to sunlight and rainfall, after a period of time, the structure may be moistened and deteriorated. Moreover, because the mentioned pallet is made of woods, forests are the ones that suffer which may result in unthinkable damage to the ecological environment, so such situation shall be improved.
For being environmental friendly, there is another type of pallet, a paper-made pallet, in the marketplace, which is mainly made of corrugated paper boards or other paper materials serving as a base support material on which paper boards having preset layers and thickness are disposed, thereby assembling a paper-made pallet with basic function. With the base support substrate, the structural strength of paper boards disposed on top can be reinforced, so the massive usage of wooden material is avoided. However, the paper-made pallet can be used to replace the wood-made pallet for being more environmental friendly, but the structural strength is often not sufficient enough, therefore the weights of commodities loaded thereon has a limitation, moreover some major disadvantages of paper-made pallet are easily to be moistened and deteriorated when subject to moisture, thereby greatly limiting the applicable objects and suitable locations. Such poor design has to be improved.
In view of the existing problems and disadvantages of wood-made and paper-made pallets, the inventor of the present invention has devoted himself to research and develop for finding the solution. With the experiences and well-trained technique of the inventor, one primary objective of the present invention is to provide a structure of iron net pallet, the structure redesigned by the present invention is to provide a metal base frame and a mated metal net plane assembled together for forming a pallet structural body, thereby greatly reinforcing the whole structural strength and suitable to be used for being stacked with various kinds of commodities, and widening the applications.
Another objective of the present invention is to utilize a structural design for greatly enhancing the whole structure, so the structural damage or deformation caused by the heavy weight of loaded commodities can be avoided.
One another objective of the present invention is to utilize a structural design allowing the pallet of the present invention to be capable of sustaining a moist environment, thereby solving the problems of being moistened and deteriorated associated with the wood-made and paper-made pallet, thereby having less usage limitation caused by the environmental conditions.
For achieving the mentioned objectives, the present invention provides a structure design in which a metal base frame and a metal net plane are assembled, and two ends of the base frame are downwardly folded for respectively forming a lateral rack having the preset height, then further laterally folded for respectively forming a transversal rack, and a supporter is additionally provided at the center of the base frame, so the placement stability and loading capacity can be increased; the net plane is configured by longitudinal and transversal net rods being assembled together, and by being combined with and supported by the base frame having the bottom part, an excellent structural strength is provided, and the weight and stress of stacking commodities can be effectively dispersed, thereby greatly increasing the stability of stacking commodities.
(10) base frame
(11) transversal rod member
(12) longitudinal rod member
(13) lateral rack
(14) transversal rack
(20) net plane
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention
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The metal base frame (10) is configured by a preset number of transversal rod members (11) and longitudinal rod members (12) being staggered with a soldering means, wherein the longitudinal rod members (12) are disposed at the bottom edges of the transversal rod members (11). Two ends of each transversal rod member (11) of the base frame (10) are downwardly folded to respectively form a lateral rack (13) having the preset height, then further laterally folded inward or outward to respectively form a transversal rack (14), at least one of the longitudinal rod members (12) is connected with the mentioned lateral rack (13) and the transversal rack (14) for reinforcing the structural strength. When necessary, the bottom of the base frame (10) can be additionally installed with at least one set of longitudinal supporter (30) for reinforcing the support strength of the bottom part of base frame (10), thereby capable of being placed with better stability and increasing the loading capacity.
The metal net plane (20) is configured by a preset number of longitudinal net rods (21) and transversal net rods (22) being staggered with a soldering means, wherein the transversal net rods (22) are disposed at the bottom edges of longitudinal net rods (21), and a staggering relation is formed between the locations of transversal net rods (22) and that of the transversal rod members (11) of the base frame (10), such that when the metal net plane (20) is covered on the top surface of base frame (10), the longitudinal net rods (21) of net plane (20) can be ensured to be in contact with the transversal rod members (11) of the base frame (10), thereby obtaining a stable support effect and also facilitating the soldering connection of the net plane (20) and the base frame (10).
The at least one set of supporter (30) installed at the bottom part of the base frame (10) is configured by a preset number of transversal rod members (31) folded in U-shape and two longitudinal rod members (32) being soldered together, wherein the longitudinal rod members (32) are assembled on the top edges of the transversal rod members (31), so when the supporter (30) is assembled at the bottom part of the base frame (10), the transversal rod members (31) can be stably in contact with the ground. The quantity of supporters (30) provided can be determined according to the specification of the base frame (10), the more sets of supporters (30), the greater support strength relative to the ground; as shown in figures, the present invention adopts single set of supporter (30) installed at the center of the bottom part of base frame (10).
Accordingly, with the disclosed structural design, the iron net pallet of the present invention assembled by soldering the metal-made base frame (10), the net plane (20) and the supporter (30) is equipped with greater structural strength and significantly-improved loading capacity for stacking commodities thereon. Thus, the present invention is suitable to be used for meeting the requirement of stacking commodities with heavy weights, thereby widening the application of the present invention. In addition, when being exposed in a moist environment or loaded with commodities that may release moisture, or even disposed in an outdoor environment, the present invention has the advantage of less likely to be moistened and deteriorated, thereby satisfying the requirements of being stacked with commodities in various environments. Comparing to a conventional wood-made or paper-made pallet, the present invention has advantages of better practicality and prolonged service life.
Based on what is disclosed above, with the structural design of the structure of iron net pallet of the present invention, the whole structural strength can be reinforced, and a better loading performance is achieved when stacking commodities. Moreover, the problems and disadvantages of conventional wood-made or paper-made pallets can be solved.
Many modifications and other embodiments of the inventions set forth herein will come to mind to one skilled in the art to which these inventions pertain having the benefit of the teachings presented in the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings. Therefore, it is to be understood that the inventions are not to be limited to the specific examples of the embodiments disclosed and that modifications and other embodiments are intended to he included within the scope of the appended claims. Although specific terms are employed herein, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation.
