Block Pallet – a type of pallet with blocks between the pallet decks or beneath the top deck
Butted deckboard – inner deckboard placed tightly against an adjacent lead deckboard during pallet assembly
Bottom deck – Assembly of deckboards comprising the lower, load bearing surface of the pallet
Chamfered deckboard – Deckboards with edges of one or two faces beveled, either along the full or specified length of board or between the stringers of blocks, allowing easier entry of pallet jack wheels.
Deckboard – a single element or component of a pallet deck, oriented perpendicular to the stringer or stringerboard
Deckboardspacing – the distance between adjacent deckboards
Double-wing pallet – a pallet with top and bottom deckboards or decks extending beyond the edges of the stringers or stringerboards
Euro Pallet – Uses nine blocks for supports rather than runners, giving it greater ease for forklift entry on all sides; typically used for European exports
Fastener – a device for connecting pallet components such as nails, staples. Screws, bolts, lag bolts, adhesives, and welds
Flush pallet – a pallet with deckboards flush with the stringers, stringerboards or blocks along the ends and sides of the pallet
Fork entry – the opening between decks, beneath the top deck and ground to admit the forks of a lifting device
Four-way pallet – a pallet with openings on all 4 sides
Grocery pallet – a generic reference to the pallets used in grocery manufacturing, distribution, and retailing; historically, meant a “GMA” pallet
Hardwood – a wood from a broad – leaved tree species (not necessarily hard in texture/dense) – Examples – oak, maple, hickory, beech, cherry
Multiple-use pallet – a pallet designed for the repeated uses for more than one-unit load with an average minimum life – to – first repair of ten trips or more
Notched stringer – a stringer with two or more notches spaced for fork-time entry
Opening height – the vertical dimension measured between decks
Pallet – a portable, horizontal, rigid, composite platform used as a base for assembling, storing, stacking, handling, and transporting goods
Pallet Design System (PDS) – a reliability-based computer – assisted design CAD program for wood pallets to determine the safe-load carrying capacity performance and economic life of wood pallets.
Recycled pallet – a pallet that has been used, discarded, salvaged, repaired, or rebuilt in order to pass through another cycle of use
Rental Pallet – A pallet owned by other than the user and rented by the user
Skid – a pallet without bottom deckboards or deck
Single Faced Pallet…also known as a Skid –
Softwood – wood from coniferous or needle bearing species of tree
Stringer – continuous, longitudinal, solid, or notched beam – component of the pallet used to support and space the deck components
Stringer Pallet – a frame of three or more parallel pieces of timber (called stringers). The top deck boards are then affixed to the stringers to create the pallet structure. Stringer pallets can have a notch cut into them allowing “four-way” entry.
Stringerboard – in block pallets, the continuous, solid board member extending for the full length of the pallet perpendicular to the deckboard and placed between the deckboards and blocks, to serve as support
Two-way entry pallet – a pallet with unnotched stringers allowing entry only from the two opposite pallet ends
Wing – overhang of deckboard or deck end from the outside edge of the stringer or stringerboard
