Pallet deck

Claim 1

A pallet structure comprising a load supporting deck having a multiplicity of legs attached thereto for supporting said deck at a predetermined distance above a planar support surface: said deck comprising a planar core laminate flanked on opposite planar surfaces by face laminae; said core laminate comprising a multiplicity of planar strips formed from thin solid sheet material and having small height relative to length, said strips aligned in spaced, parallel relationship and separated by substantially continuous undulating strips of thin solid sheet material substantially equal in height to said planar strips, the undulations of said strips forming regularly spaced flutes having parallel axes and peaks, said peaks of said flutes being structurally secured to oppositely facing surfaces of adjacent planar strips, said flute axes being parallel with the planes of said planar strips and perpendicular to the longitudinal edge thereof; each of said face laminae comprising respectively parallel inner and outer facing sheets of thin solid sheet material, the planes thereof separated by substantially continuous undulating sheets of thin solid sheet material, the undulations of said sheets forming regularly spaced flutes having parallel axes and peaks, said peaks of said flutes being structurally secured to oppositely facing surfaces of said inner and outer facing sheets, said face laminae respectively secured to oppositely facing surfaces of said core laminate whereby said core laminate flute axes are perpendicular to said face laminae flute axes and said inner and outer facing sheets.