Skeleton four-way pallet

Claim 1

A four-way skeleton wooden pallet having four sides each constructed to receive the horizontally-projecting load-lifting fork of a forklift consisting of only two courses of beams, one course being a lower course having a plurality of wooden parallel lower base beams including spaced side beams disposed so that their lower edges for resting on a supporting surface are in a bottom plane, and the other course being an upper course having several wooden parallel upper load-supporting beams including beams disposed so that their upper edges are in a top plane, said upper load-supporting beams crossing said lower base beams mutually perpendicularly, and interfitted notched joint means connecting the lower edge portions of said upper load-supporting beams and upper edge portions of said lower base beams at their crossing locations, the widths of said lower base beams being greater than their thicknesses, and said lower base beams being arranged on edge with their widths vertical and located by said notched joint means with the major portion of such widths lower than the lower edges of said upper load-supporting beams to provide room for insertion of the load-lifting fork between said spaced side beams, below the entire lower edges of said upper load-supporting beams and above said bottom plane of said spaced side lower base beams lower edges, the widths of said upper load-supporting beams being greater than their thicknesses, and said upper load-supporting beams being arranged on edge with their widths vertical and located by said notched joint means with the major portion of such widths higher than the upper edges of said lower base beams to provide room for insertion of the load-lifting fork above the entire upper edges of said lower base beams and below said top plane of said upper load-supporting beams upper edges.