Patent ID: 8397650

Claim:
A hollow plastic deck panel adapted for use in a plastic pallet, said panel comprising a first sheet of plastics material and a second sheet of plastics material, said first sheet and said second sheet having corresponding peripheral edge portions fused together to space portions of said second sheet from said first sheet, said second sheet of said deck panel including a plurality of parallel spaced rows of aligned elongated double wall ribs extending across said second sheet and projecting upwardly with top portions of said ribs fused to said first sheet to reinforce said deck panel in a first direction, said first sheet of said deck panel including a plurality of parallel spaced rows of aligned elongated double wall ribs projecting downwardly between said ribs in said second sheet and having bottom portions of said ribs in said first sheet fused to said second sheet, said double wall ribs in said rows in said first sheet extending between and perpendicular to said parallel spaced ribs in said second sheet, and said elongated double wall ribs in said first sheet having opposite end portions intersecting and fused to center portions of said elongated double wall ribs in said second sheet to reinforce said deck panel in a second direction perpendicular to said first direction.