Patent ID: 8336466

Claim:
A metallic pallet of the type for supporting objects for storage and transport, the pallet comprising: a generally planar top side defining at least three corners; a generally planar bottom side defining at least three corners; at least one block extending between the top and bottom sides for holding the top and bottom sides in generally parallel spaced and aligned relation to one another such that each corner of the top side is vertically aligned over a corner of the bottom side in corresponding pairs; at least three generally hollow corner blocks, each corner block extending between a respective aligned pair of the corners of the top and bottom sides; the corner blocks each interrupting the generally planar top and bottom sides such that the top and bottom sides do not overlie and do not extend beyond the outer exposed surfaces of the corner blocks, whereby corner impacts to the pallet during a crush mode is substantially absorbed entirely by deformation of the hollow corner blocks without distorting the planar configurations of the top and bottom sides.