Patent ID: 7124889

Claim:
A rolled film and pallet combination comprising (a) a pallet comprising four longitudinal top stringers, three transverse ribs, and four longitudinal bottom stringers, two of the longitudinal top and two of the longitudinal bottom stringers being located opposite each other at the ends of the transverse ribs, the other of the two longitudinal top and the two longitudinal bottom stringers being located opposite each other on the ribs intermediate the ends of the ribs to define four sets of aligned top and bottom stringers with aligned top and bottom spaces between the end stringers and the intermediate stringers, and (b) four rolls of plastic film, each wound on a core with the ends of the cores extending beyond the ends of the rolls a distance less than one half the distance between the outer surfaces of each pair of the top and bottom stringers, the rolls being positioned on the top surface of the top stringers with the ends of the cores being located in the spaces between the end stringers and the adjacent intermediate stringers.