Patent ID: 8468955

Claim:
A pallet used for storage and transport of loads comprising: a substantially planar loads arrangement surface capable of accommodating said loads, said loads arrangement surface comprising a single-piece fabric covering; and two support elements associated with said loads arrangement surface and capable of sustaining said loads, said support elements being positioned substantially parallel there-between and capable of supporting loads, each support element having a first end and a second end, said first and second ends defining a length there-between, each support element further being provided with a cross section of a substantially circular dome-shaped kind and having an upper limit and a lower limit, the upper limit of each of the two support elements being coplanar with the substantially planar loads arrangement surface, and each support element being provided with at least one extremity having an opening to allow the positioning of a fork of a forklift; wherein: at least one portion of the single-piece fabric covering of the loads arrangement surface defines at least two cavities, such that an entirety of each of the two support elements, apart from the at least one extremity of each support element, is positioned within each of the at least two cavities, such that each of the support elements is externally and individually enveloped by the at least one portion of the single-piece fabric covering; said loads arrangement surface comprises a first edge, a second edge, a third edge, and a fourth edge, said first and said second edges each having a length and being arranged in parallel to one another at opposite edges of said surface, said third and said fourth edges each having a length and being arranged in parallel to one another and perpendicular to said first and said second edges, at least one of said two support elements being positioned substantially adjacent and parallel to said first edge and at least one of said two support elements being positioned substantially adjacent and parallel to said second edge; and the length between said first end and said second end of each of said two support elements is less than said length of said first and said second edges of said loads arrangement surface, such that said first and said second ends of said two support elements are at least partially inset relative to said third and said fourth edges of said loads arrangement surface.