Pallet Glossary
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Pallet Glossary
- Block Pallet – A pallet type featuring spacer blocks between its decks or under the top deck for added support.
- Butted deckboard – A tightly placed inner deckboard that abuts directly against a lead deckboard during the pallet assembly process.
- Bottom deck _ The series of deckboards that make up the pallet’s lower surface, which supports the loaded weight.
- Chamfered deckboard – : Deckboards with beveled edges, either along their entire length or between the stringers or blocks, designed for smoother pallet jack wheel entry.
- Deckboard – A singular component of a pallet deck, oriented across the stringer or stringerboard.
- Deckboard spacing – The measured gap between adjacent deckboards.
- Double-wing pallet – A pallet whose top and bottom deckboards extend beyond the stringers or stringerboards’ edges.
- Euro Pallet – : A pallet that uses nine support blocks instead of runners, facilitating forklift access from all sides, commonly used in European trade.
- Fastener – An attachment device such as nails, staples, screws, bolts, lag bolts, adhesives, or welds used to secure pallet components together.
- Flush pallet – A pallet where the deckboards are even with the stringers, stringerboards, or blocks on the pallet’s edges.
- Fork entry – The gap between the pallet decks, under the top deck, or between the deck and ground, designed to allow the entry of forklift tines.
- Four-way pallet –A pallet designed with entry points for material handling equipment on all four sides.
- Grocery pallet – A term for pallets used in the grocery industry, historically referring to a “GMA” pallet.
- Hardwood – : Wood sourced from broadleaf trees, which includes species like oak, maple, hickory, beech, and cherry, regardless of the actual hardness.
- Multiple-use pallet – A pallet built for repeated use, designed to withstand multiple unit loads with an expected lifespan of at least ten trips before needing repair.
- Notched stringer – A stringer with multiple notches to facilitate the entry of forklift tines.
- Opening height – The vertical space between the decks of a pallet.
- Pallet – A portable, rigid platform that’s used as a base for assembling, storing, stacking, handling, and transporting goods.
- Pallet Design System (PDS) – A specialized CAD program for wooden pallets that calculates their safe-load carrying capacity, performance, and expected lifespan.
- Recycled pallet – : A pallet that has been previously used, discarded, and then salvaged, repaired, or rebuilt for further use.
- Rental Pallet – A pallet that is owned by a party other than the user and is leased for use.
- Skid – A pallet variant without bottom deckboards.
- Single Faced Pallet…also known as a Skid –A pallet with deckboards on only one side.
- Softwood – Timber from coniferous or needle-bearing trees.
- Stringer – A solid or notched longitudinal beam that’s part of the pallet, used to support and space out the deck components.
- Stringer Pallet – A pallet made with parallel timber beams called stringers, to which the top deck boards are secured, creating the pallet structure. If notched, these pallets allow “four-way” entry.
- Stringerboard – In block pallets, this is a solid board that runs the full length of the pallet perpendicular to the deckboard, placed between the deckboards and blocks for support.
- Two-way entry pallet – A pallet with solid, unnotched stringers that allow entry from only the two ends.
- Wing – : The excess part of the deckboard or deck end that extends beyond the edge of the stringer or stringerboard.
