Patent ID: 7878126

Claim:
In combination, a plurality of pallet sheets and a palletized support structure, upon which said plurality of pallet sheets, having oppositely disposed upwardly angled end tab members, are to be supported in a substantially nested stacked array, comprising: a palletized support structure upon which a plurality of pallet sheets are to be disposed and supported; a plurality of pallet sheets, having substantially rectangular configurations comprising predetermined length and width dimensions with oppositely disposed end portions of said plurality of pallet sheets having oppositely disposed, upwardly angled tab members that can be readily grasped by a gripper mechanism of a transport vehicle, disposed and supported upon said palletized support structure in a stacked nested array such that said stacked nested array of said plurality of pallet sheets substantially defines a rectangular parallelepiped; said palletized support structure having predetermined width and length dimensions substantially corresponding to said predetermined length and width dimensions of said plurality of pallet sheets and comprising a substantially flat central planar portion for serving as an underlying support structure for substantially central planar portions of said plurality of pallet sheets, and a pair of angled structures, disposed only at opposite end portions of said substantially flat central planar platform of said palletized support structure so as to effectively leave said substantially flat central planar platform of said palletized support structure free to support said substantially central planar portions of said plurality of pallet sheets in a substantially planar state, while said pair of angled structures engage said oppositely disposed end portions of said plurality of pallet sheets, having said predetermined length dimensions, so as to cause said oppositely disposed end portions of said plurality of pallet sheets, comprising said oppositely disposed, upwardly angled tab members, to be maintained in such upwardly angled orientation such that said plurality of pallet sheets can be readily grasped by a gripper mechanism of a transport vehicle, and wherein said plurality of pallet sheets will be able to be disposed and maintained upon said palletized support structure in said substantially nested stacked array; and fastening members for securing and retaining said nested stacked array of said plurality of pallet sheets upon said underlying palletized support structure.