Patent ID: 6713153
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: B09B,B29B,B29L,Y02W,Y10T

Abstract:
Environmentally safe, low assembly cost apparatus for storing and handling rubber tread strips from discarded tire carcasses in a compact configuration for bulk storage on a pallet at an outdoor site in a configuration that precludes accumulation of water for breeding of mosquitos, comprising in combination:said pallet comprising a loading platform of specified width and length dimensions, and having a configuration for transport by a fork lift truck, and a plurality of reclaimed treaded tire carcass strips cut from an annular portion of the discarded tire carcasses with removed opposing sidewalls, wherein the annular portions are flat treaded longitudinal strips stacked at said outdoor site in several side by side abutting multi-layer stacks of individual said rubber tread strips substantially covering the loading platform in an interlocked self-supporting configuration that retains a multiplicity of treaded strips in said multilayer stacks having rubber-to-rubber pattern configuration providing impediment to lateral movement of the strips on said platform thereby tending to stably retain said stacks in place on said pallet when the stacks are transported upon said pallet by a fork lift truck, said strips being of similar length and width stacked in said rubber-to-rubber contact pattern disposed longitudinally upon said platform along one of the specified dimensions, wherein said rubber-to-rubber pattern further constitutes configuration means in said stacks that precludes said accumulation of water.