Pallet Supports and Methods and Apparatus for Producing Pallets Bonded to the Supports

摘要

The method and apparatus for making recyclable paper pallets uses a spooled laminate support wound on a spooled mandrel using adhesive coated paper stiff. According to one aspect of the invention, the spooled laminate support can be adhered to conventional upper and lower pallet skin sheets made of paper material such as corrugated cardboard. According to another aspect of the present invention, the spooled pallet support is used in a system in which the pallet is directly coupled with a pre-tied cargo. In this system, the slip sheet is tied directly to the floor of the load, and the slip sheet provides a spacer or standoff for inserting lifting equipment such as lifting forks underneath the load and an arrangement of pallet supports sufficient to support the load. It is attached directly to the upper surface of the. The inherent stiffness of the bundled cargo is sufficient to compensate for the lack of stiffness of the thin paper stiff sheet. If the supported cargo does not have adequate structural rigidity, the underlying structural skin sheet is glued to the bottom surface of the pallet support arrangement to provide the compressive strength required to lift the palletized cargo. The system of the present invention provides the flexibility of using a pallet system appropriately to support the desired cargo with minimal material. Spooled supports are manufactured on site, and pallets are formed in a system for immediate processing of material cargo. The other pallet support is made from strips cut from a continuous web of single sided cardboard.