Pallet cardboard foot

Abstract

A cardboard pallet supported on select numbers of a circular foot each seated in circular openings die cut to a diameter, wherein each foot consists of a select number of helical turns of a corrugated strip of a standard width and the number of turns selected provides a diameter correlated to the diameter of the circular openings.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A palletized bulk container comprising a bulk container of cardboard construction material having a cooperating arrangement of panels bounding a storage compartment and in which one of said panels serves as a bottom for said container, three strips of rectangular pallets in spaced apart relation having operative positions in which two said strips are adhesively secured adjacent to sides of said bulk container bottom and said remaining strip in an interposed position therebetween, each pallet strip consisting of a cooperating pair of two adhesively secured together superposed rectangular shaped plies of cardboard construction material having an operative clearance position from each other bounding an operative mounting compartment for a pallet foot in a selected number, each one of said pallet strip ply in an inner facing relation to each other of said pair having a circular shape of cardboard construction material removed to present an edge bounding a circular opening and each remaining one of said pallet strip ply of said pair having an area in aligning relation to a said circular opening so as to serve as a closure for said opening, plural select numbers of a pallet foot of a cylindrical configuration with opposite ends having an operative position in said mounting compartment in extending relation between aligned circular openings, each pallet foot consisting of cardboard corrugated construction material of a thickness of approximately one eight of an inch having a hollow core of a selected diameter and adhesively secured together helical turns of a select number so as to present a diameter size as measured by said hollow core and said helical turns to be of approximately the diameter size of said circular openings of pallet strips disposed in said mounting compartment, each said pallet foot having one said opposite end projected in a cooperating one said circular opening characterized by a surface contact established between said end and said edge bounding said circular opening as results from said approximately similar diameter sizes, and an adhesive at the interface of said ends of each said pallet foot and said each circular opening edges to contribute to holding each said pallet strip in assembled condition during use.  
     
     
         2 . A cylindrical foot for a pallet having an edge bounding a circular opening of a diameter sized to receive an end of said foot in projected relation therein, said cylindrical foot comprising a strip of cardboard corrugated construction material approximately one eighth inch in width wound in a select number of helical turns adhesively secured to each other into said cylindrical shape, a surface on an innermost helical turn bounding a hollow core of a selected diameter, and a number of helical turns selected to provide a diameter size of said foot as measured by said diameter of said hollow core and one eighth multiples of said helical turns to contribute to establishing surface contact at an interface of said end of said foot and said edge bounding said pallet circular opening.