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shipping
pallet - a pallet designed to be used for a one-direction
movement of the unit load from shipper to receiver; it is then recycled or
disposed; see limited use pallet
single-wing pallet - a pallet with the
top deckboards or deck extending beyond the outer edge of the stringers or
stringerboards and with the bottom deckboards or deck, if any, flush with the
outer edges of the stringers or stringerboards
skid - a pallet without bottom deckboards or deck
slave
pallet
- rigid pallet or platform; single, thick panel used as a support base for a
palletized load in warehouse rack-storage facilities or production
systems
softwood - wood from coniferous
or needlebearing species of trees (not necessarily soft in texture or of low
density)
solid deck pallet - a pallet constructed
of a single or multiple components without space between the deckboards or
components (see panel deck pallet)
span - the distance between supports
strap
sIot -
recess or cutout in the upper edge of the stringer or the top or bottom pallet
deck, designed to allow tie-down of a unit load to the pallet deck with
strapping or banding; strap notch; banding notch
stringer - continuous,
longitudinal, solid or notched beam-component of the pallet used to support and
space the deck components, often identified by location as the outside,
interior, or center stringer; bearer; runner
stringerboard - in block pallets,
the continuous, solid board member extending for the full length of the pallet,
perpendicular to the deckboard and placed between the deckboards and blocks, to
serve as Support of deckboards or deck
top-deck of pallet - the assembly of
components comprising the upper load-carrying pallet face
trip - a series of four to six handlings of a pallet, required to move a
palletized unit load from the shipping point to the receiving point
two-way entry palIet - a pallet with
unnotched solid stringers allowing entry only from the two opposite pallet ends;
a pallet without notches in stringers
unit
load -
the assembly of goods or a single item on a pallet for handling, moving,
storing, and stacking as a single entity; it includes the supporting
pallet
warehouse pallet - a double-deck, flat,
multiple-use, returnable pallet intended for general warehouse
use
wing - overhang of
deckboard or deck end from the outside edge of the stringer or stringerboard, to
increase unit-load area, to add pallet load-bearing capacity, to reduce
deckboard-end splitting by fasteners, and to facilitate the lifting of a pallet
with bar slings hanging from a crane