Please find the industry terms listed in alphibetical order.
Q Quality - consistent performance of a uniform
product meeting the customer's needs for economy and function.
R Racked Across Deck Boards - output from PDS
program describing the maximum load carrying capacity and
deflection of a pallet where the rack frame supports the pallet
only at the ends of the deck boards.
Racked Across Stringers - output from PDS
program describing the maximum load carrying capacity and
deflection of a pallet where the rack frame supports the pallet
only at the ends of the stringers or stringer boards.
Repair - to remake in order to use again.
Recycling - a pallet, container or reel that
has been used, discarded, salvaged, repaired and which passes
through a cycle again.
Rental Pallet - a pallet owned by a third
party, different from the actual pallet user.
Returnable/Reusable Pallet - a pallet designed
to be used for more than one trip.
Reversible Pallet - a pallet with identical
top and bottom decks.
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top S Shipping Pallet - pallet designed to be used
for a single one-way trip from shipper to receiver; it is
then disposed; see expendable pallet.
Shook - cut-to-size pallet parts to be assembled
into pallets.
Shook Grade - the classification of the quality
of pallet parts relative to performance characteristics based
on size and distribution of defects, independent of wood species.
Single-Wing Pallet - a pallet with the deck
boards extending beyond the edges of the stringers or stringer-boards
with the bottom deck boards flush (if present).
Skid - a pallet having no bottom deck.
Slave Pallet - pallet, platform or single,
thick panel used as a support base for a palletized load in
rack-storage facilities or production systems.
Soft Nail - pallet nail with a MIBANT angle
equal to or greater than 47 degrees.
Softwood - wood from coniferous or needle-bearing
species of trees (not necessarily soft or low density).
Solid Deck Pallet - a pallet constructed
with no spacing between deck boards.
Span - the distance between stringer or block
supports.
Stevedore Pallet - a pallet designed for
use on seaport shipping docks, normally of heavy-duty, double-wing
construction.
Stiff-Stock Steel Nail - pallet nail made
of medium-high carbon steel without heat treatment and tempering
with MIBANT angle between 29 and 46 degrees.
Strap Slot - recess or cutout on the upper
edge of the stringer or the bottom of the top deckboard to
allow tie-down of a unit load to the pallet deck with strapping/banding,
also called the banding notch strapping - thin flat bands
used to secure load to pallet.
Stringer - continuous, longitudinal, solid
or notched beam-component of the pallet used to support deck
components, often identified by location as the outside or
center stringer. These are usually 2"x4"s, although
in some cases they may be as large as 4"x4".
Stringer Board - in block pallets, continuous,
solid board member extending for the full length of the pallet
perpendicular to deck board members and placed between deck
boards and blocks.
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