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Block
Pallet A type of pallet with blocks between
the pallet decks or beneath the top deck.
Chamfered
Deck Board A deck board with the edges of one or
two faces beveled, either along the full or specified length
of board or between the stringers or blocks, facilitating
entry of pallet-jack wheels and tines of forklift trucks.
Closed
"Loop" or Closed Distribution System
A shipping system restricted to moving goods between specified
plants and facilities.
Cost
per Trip Average cost of pallet or container use
for a single one-way movement of the unit load consisting
of 46 handlings.
Drive-Screw
Nail Continuously helical threaded or fluted pallet
nail.
Economic
Life - The number of trips the pallet will make
over its lifetime, provided it is properly repaired, which
maximized the return on the investment (an output of the PDS
software).
Exchange
Pallet A multiple-use pallet intended for use among
a designated group of shippers and receivers where possession
of the pallet is transferred with the ownership of the unit
loadpool pallet.
Expendable
Pallet A pallet intended for a limited series of
handlings during a single unit load movement from shipper
to receiver.
Fastener
A device for connecting pallet components such as nails,
staples, screws, bolts, lag bolts, adhesives, and welds.
Fastener
Shear Index Measure of the estimated shear resistance
of the pallet fastener relative to the shear resistance of
a high-quality "baseline" pallet nail.
Flush
Pallet A pallet with deck boards flush with the
stringers, stringer boards, or blocks along the ends and sides
of the pallet.

FourWay Notched Heavy Duty
Stringer Pallet A pallet with openings at
both opposite pallet ends and sides sufficient to admit hand-pallet
jacksfull four-way entry pallet.
Free Span The distance between spacers within the
pallet and the distance between external pallet supports as
in a warehouse rack.

Grocery Industry FourWay
Pallet A generic reference to the pallets used
in grocery manufacturing, distribution and retailing. Historically,
it meant a "GMA pallet" which was a pallet specified
by the Grocery Manufacturers' Association.
Handling A single pickup; movement as a result
of picking up, transporting, and setting down of an empty
or loaded pallet.
Hardwood
A wood from broad-leafed tree species (not necessarily
hard in texture or dense).
Life
to First Repair The number of one-way trips of
the pallet prior to requiring any repair.
LimitedUse
Pallet A pallet designed for an average of up to
9 trips with an average of 5 handlings per trip in an average
environment.
Load
Bearing Surface The interface between pallet top
deck and the unit load supported by the palletinterface
between pallet bottom deck and pallet-supporting area.
Logistics
- The process of planning, implementing, and controlling
the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services,
and related information from point of origin or point of consumption
for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements.
Multiple
Use Pallet A pallet designed for repeated uses
for more than one unit load with an average minimum life-to-first
repair of 10 trips or more with an average of 5 handlings
per trip in an average handling environment.
Notched
Stringer A stringer with 2 or more notches spaced
for fork-tine entry (partial 4-way entry).
Pallet
A portable, horizontal, rigid, composite platform used
as a base for assembling, storing, stacking, handling, and
transporting goods as a unit load often equipped with a superstructure.
Pallet
Design System (PDS) A reliability-based computer-assisted
design CAD program for wood pallets for determination of the
safe load-carrying capacity, performance, and economic life
of wood pallets.
Pallet
Life The period during which the pallet remains
useful under given maintenance conditions expressed in units
of time or in the number of one-way movements of the pallet.
Quality
Consistent performance of a uniform product meeting
the customer's needs for economy and function normally represented
in terms of conformance to predetermined, agreed standards.
Racked
Across Deck Boards (RAD) Output of the PDS evaluation
software describing the maximum load-carrying capacity and
deflection of a wood pallet and its decks where the warehouse
racking frame supports the pallet only at the deck board ends.
Racked
Across Stringers (RAS) - Output of the PDS software
describing the maximum load-carrying capacity and deflection
of a wood pallet and its decks where the warehouse racking
frame supports the pallet only at the stringer or stringer
board ends.
Repaired
Pallet - Pallet with damaged components replaced
with new or recycled components in order to reuse it.
Recycled
Pallet A pallet that has been used, discarded,
salvaged, repaired, or rebuilt in order to pass through another
cycle or cycles of use. Environmentally responsible.
Rental
Pallet A pallet owned by other than the user and
rented by the user.
Returnable/Reusable
Pallet A pallet designed to be used for more than
one tripmultiple-use pallet.

Reversible Pallet A
pallet with identical or similar top and bottom decks, to
allow either one to support the unit load.
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 of.

Single Wing Pallet with Optional Chamfer on Bottom
Boards A pallet with the top deck boards
or deck extending beyond the outer edge of the stringers or
stringer boards and with the bottom deck boards or deck, if
any, flush with the outer edges of the stringers or stringer
boards.
Skid A pallet without bottom deck boards or deck.
Slave
Pallet A rigid 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 needle bearing species of trees
(not necessarily soft in texture or of low density).
StiffStock
Steel Nail Pallet nail made of medium-high carbon
steel without heat treatment and tempering with a MIBANT angle
between 29 and 46 degrees inclusive.

Stringer
Pallet (Premium Plywood Panel Deck) 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.

Stringer
Pallet (Heavy Duty Two-way) 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.
Trip
A series of 46 handlings of a pallet. Required
to move a palletized unit load from the shipping point to
the receiving point.
Wing
Overhang of deck board or deck end from the outside
edge of the stringer to increase unit-load area, to add pallet
load-bearing capacity, to reduce deck board-end splitting
by fasteners, or to facilitate the lifting of a pallet with
bar slings hanging from a crane.
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