Patent ID: 8789475

Claim:
A pallet guard assembly including a plurality of pallet guard sections being assembled together to border a portion of a pallet arrangement, the pallet guard sections each comprising: at least one sleeve section; at least one panel section being slideably engageable inside the sleeve section in a plurality of positions in a telescoping relationship to obtain an adjustable combined length that permits adjustment to a length dimension of the portion of the pallet arrangement; the pallet guard sections including a bottom portion defining a greatest overall width dimension measured in a horizontal direction when the pallet guard sections are assembled together; a first connector on an end of one or more of the sleeve or panel sections; and a removeably attached terminator that includes: a flat plate portion defined by opposing vertically oriented surfaces, an end of the flat plate portion including a second connector being cooperatively complementary with the first connector to permit the terminator to be removeably secured to the end of the one or more sleeve or panel sections such that the flat plate portion is substantially perpendicular to the pallet guard section when the first and second connectors are engaged with each other; wherein the flat plate portion is thinner than the thickness of the second connector, and a greatest overall width of the flat plate portion, as measured in a horizontally longitudinal direction along the at least one sleeve section or the at least one panel section to which the terminator is removeably secured when the pallet guard sections and the terminator are assembled together, being smaller than the greatest overall width dimension of the at least one panel section.