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• BLOCK PALLET - pallet with blocks between the pallet decks or beneath the top deck rather than stringers

 

• BUTTED DECKBOARD - inner deckboard placed tightly against an adjacent lead deckboard durig pallet assembly

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• CHAMFERED DECKBOARDS - deckboards with edges of one or 2 faces beveled, either along the full or specified length of board or between the stringers or blocks allowing easier entry of pallet jack wheels

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• DEFLECTION - the amount of deformation or bending in a pallet or pallet component under load

 

• DRIVE SCREW NAIL - helically (continuous spiral) threaded pallet nail

 

• FLUSH PALLET - deckboards are flush with the stringer boards or blocks along the sides of the pallet

 

• HAND WHEEL JACK OPENING - space provided in bottom deck allowing pallet jack wheels to bear on floor

 

• HARDWOOD - wood from broad-leaved species of trees

 

• LOAD BEARING SURFACE- actual area of material in contact with an supporting a unit load

 

• NOTCH - cutout in lower portion of the stringer to allow entry of fork tine, usually 9" in length, 1-1/2" in depth

 

• SKID - a pallet having no bottom deck

 

• SOFTWOOD - wood from coniferous or needle-bearing species of trees (not necessarily soft or low density

 

• STRAP SLOT - recess or cutout on the upper edge of the stringer or the bottom of the top deckboard to allow tie down of a unit load to the pallet deck with strapping/banding,, also call the banding notch

 

• STRINGER - continuous, longitudinal, solid or notched beam-component of the pallet used to support deckboard components, often identified by location as the outside or center stringer (aka "runner")

 

• WING - overhang of deckboard end from outside edge of stringer or stringerboard