Patent ID: 9228361
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: B65D,E04F

Claim Text:
1. A pallet cap for covering and connecting with at least one pallet, the cap comprising: a reinforced platform having a flat top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface; four peripheral edges connecting the top and bottom surfaces, three or more of the edges each forming at least one edge extension continuing outward from the reinforced platform, and at least one edge notch proximate and recessed from the at least one edge extension; and a plurality of retaining walls extending downward at an obtuse angle from the bottom surface of the platform and defining an innermost surface of the edge notches, proximate a junction of the platform and the edge extensions, for securing the pallet cap over a shipping pallet; a plurality of the edge extensions and a plurality of the lower plate extensions have at least one aperture therethrough; wherein the apertures of the edge extensions and the apertures of the lower plate extensions are an equal distance from a horizontal sidewall separating and defining the edge extensions or the edge notches, such that apertures of the plate extensions align with respective apertures of lower plate extensions of a second pallet cap when the pallet cap and second pallet cap are connected via edge extensions of the pallet cap resting within edge notches and upon lower edge extensions of the second pallet cap.