A method of making a pallet (10, 210) includes providing a pallet inner core (16, 218), and attaching, by adhesive, first and second complementarily shaped plastic skin shells (12, 14, 226) to portions of the core, and interconnecting the shells by heat fusing or interlocking elements. Each shells is formed of two plastic materials. The core is formed with reinforcing truss beams (700) therein, each having an upper chord part (710) which is flush with an upper surface of the core and in contact with the upper shell or adhesive. Each beam has webs (708) connected to chords, straight central portions (702) and end portions (704) extending downwardly into leg portions of the pallet. Also disclosed is a pallet having such features.

According to the embodiments described herein, a nestable pallet can include an upper deck and a lower deck. The upper deck can forms a product support region. The upper deck can include a plurality of foot members each formed as a cavity within the product support region of the upper deck. Each of the foot members can include a base portion offset downward from the from the product support region of the upper deck. The lower deck can be joined to the upper deck and can be disposed downwards from the upper deck. The lower deck can include a plurality of foot strengthening orifices. Each of the foot strengthening orifices can include a support rim. The foot members of the upper deck can be received by the foot strengthening orifices and constrained by the support rim.

An artist palette having a tray with an upper surface, a plurality of recessed wells positioned in the tray, an aperture in an edge of the upper surface of the tray providing a place for a painter to hold the tray, a drip ledge groove positioned on a periphery of the upper surface of the tray including a first upwardly extending edge useful for removing excess paint and water from a paintbrush, and wherein the drip ledge groove serves to hold paint or water that has been removed from the paintbrush.

An injection-molded product of bi- or multicolored appearance includes a first thermoplastic component of a first color that is a base color, and at least one second thermoplastic component of a second color that is different from first color. The injection-molded product also has at least one unmixed, especially unblended, regional domain of only the first or second color. The domain can be uncontaminated by and/or visually distinct from the other color. The first thermoplastic component and the at least one second thermoplastic component are mutually mixable, especially blendable and/or chemically compatible, materials, when in their thermoplastic melted states. An injection-molding method can be used to manufacture the injection-molded product of bi- or multicolored appearance.

A reinforced plastic pallet includes a pallet deck having a lower deck surface and an opposing upper deck surface, and the upper deck surface is configured for contacting goods. The reinforced plastic pallet includes one or more pallet legs extending between the lower deck surface and a base layer, wherein the base layer is reinforced with a fiber layer. A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced pallet having a thermoplastic part includes programming a controller with a pallet assembly profile; moving the thermoplastic part relative to a heat source to form a melted surface on the thermoplastic part; and depositing a fiber-reinforced material onto the melted surface according to the pallet assembly profile. The method may include entangling the fiber-reinforced material with the melted surface; and cooling the melted surface.

A compression molding system includes a first extruder configured to output melted plastic, a second extruder downstream from the first extruder and configured to mix the melted plastic with wood chips to output a composite material, a splitter downstream from the second extruder and configured to split a flow of the composite material between a first flow and a second flow, and an inner and outer block transfer valve downstream from the splitter and configured to receive the first flow and the second flow of the composite material. An inner block transfer valve and an outer block transfer valve may be configured to alternately direct the composite material between an inner block accumulator and an outer block accumulator.

A dismantlable pallet including a substantially planar, upper load bearing member with a reinforcing internal frame; a substantially planar, lower supporting base with a reinforcing internal frame configured to improve the structural rigidity and load bearing capacity of the base. The pallet further includes a plurality of spaced apart support members sandwiched between the load bearing member and the base defining apertures between the load bearing member and the base, rendering the pallet releasably engageable with conventional and compatible load transporting apparatuses; and at least one releasable fastener to secure the load bearing member to the base with their respective reinforcing internal frames and the support members sandwiched between the member and the base wherein the load bearing member and the base are made of a rubber compound selected from the group including hardness, tensile strength, tear resistance, abrasion resistance, temperature resistance, impact resistance, slip resistance and moisture resistance.

Wood scrap and binder components forming raw material (1) of a pallet block are prepared in accordance with predetermined mechanical properties of the pallet block to be produced with a mass equal to the predetermined mass of the finished pallet block. The prepared components are mixed and fed into a press mould (3) of a press die (2), pressed to size, and the binder is cross-linked applying heat externally by the aid of the side walls (11) of the press mould (3) and at the same time internally by applying heat to the central region of the pallet base material (1) via a central forming mandrel (14) conducting hot steam into the pressed the pallet block, thereby promoting the cross-linking of the pallet base material's binder in short time. The invention also relates to an apparatus implementing the method.

In a pallet manufacturing method, variations of pallets, having different thicknesses of pallet bodies, heights of legs, or foaming ratios thereof, are manufactured at low cost and with high quality. The method includes a pallet body molding step for molding a plurality of the pallet bodies of a plurality of types having different thicknesses or expansion ratios of foaming; a leg molding step for molding, separately from the pallet body, a plurality of legs of a plurality of types having different heights or expansion ratios of foaming; and a vacuum forming step for forming a resin sheet for covering and integrating the pallet body and the legs from a bottom surface side of the pallet by vacuum integral forming after the pallet body and the legs are selected, respectively, from the plurality of types and assembled in a state that the legs are mounted on the pallet body.