Preservation skid

Abstract

This invention is a skid or pallet that arrives at a “using location” with a pre-installed hermetically integrated base sheet, produced from a flexible packaging material. It is built, such that one of several methods of securing any given asset to the skid can be utilized in a fashion that eliminates the possibility of compromising the integrity, or air-tightness, of the base sheet. An asset(s) can be secured to the invention rapidly with minimal labor expenditures without worrying about, precision registration of machine feet with skid bolts or the dangers associated with manual guidance of equipment over protruding bolts. This invention can reduce the amount of time spent in the preparation of an asset for export shipment or placement into long-term storage multi-fold; due to the elimination of measuring, punching, drilling, calking and alignment operations all of which will save money and enhance employee safety protection.

1 . A skid or pallet that provides a method of securing any asset to it, through any securing method feasible, without violating the integrity of a hermetically integrated sheet of flexible packaging material that provides a means of sealing the asset inside of a flexible cover by any sealing method necessary while eliminating various costs associated with previously used onsite labor intensive traditional barrier packaging methods for export and preservation packaging needs.  
   
   
       2 . The invention with its inherent qualities referenced in  claim 1  eliminates these following traditional packaging practices for export and preservation packaging applications; 
 obtaining exact asset dimensions and bolt-hole locations and subsequently drilling bolt-holes and installing bolts onsite,    locating and cutting bolt holes in a cover or sheet of packaging material on-site,    aligning the bolt-holes in the cover or packaging material over the bolt-holes in the skid or pallet onsite,    making the interface between the skid or pallet, the bolts and the cover or sheet of packaging material air-tight on-site,    lifting an asset and lowering it over protruding bolts where misalignment could cause worker injury and product damage,    and time spent struggling to manipulate into alignment, the flexible cover material with that of a non-precision field-installed base sheet.    
   
   
       3 . This invention; with its inherent qualities, as referenced in claims  1  and  2 , facilitates the following new methods and concepts with regards to packaging for export shipment and long term preservation applications; 
 allows an asset packaging crew to randomly locate an asset on the top deck of the invention without aligning it with protruding bolts, thereby reducing job time and increasing job safety,    provides a large, readily accessible, and flat base surface for sealing an air-tight cover to the hermetically integrated sheet of packaging material by any means necessary such as but not limited to heat sealing, adhering, taping, etc,    and reduces the number of steps required to package an asset at a job site by introducing the concept of a manufactured pallet or skid with a hermetically integrated sheet of flexible packaging material that does not require large amounts of onsite manipulation, assembly, or fabrication for complete asset preservation and subsequent shipment or storage.