Patent ID: 7275489

Claim:
A thermoformed twin sheet plastic pallet consisting of an upper plastic sheet and a lower plastic sheet, the upper and lower sheets being fused together to form a platform structure and a plurality of leg structures downstanding from the platform structure in spaced relation and defining a plurality of forklift passages therebetween, characterized in that: the leg structures comprise spaced clusters of downstanding protrusions in the upper sheet fused in vertically overlapping relation to spaced clusters of upstanding protrusions in the lower sheet; the downstanding protrusions in each cluster of downstanding protrusions are intermeshed with and fused to the upstanding protrusions in a cluster of upstanding protrusions; and main body flat planar portions of the upper sheet, located between the spaced clusters of downstanding protrusions and devoid of protrusions, coact with main body flat planar portions of the lower sheet, located between the spaced clusters of upstanding protrusions and devoid of protrusions, to define upper and lower boundaries of the forklift passages with the vertical boundaries of the forklift passages defined by the leg structures.