Pallet Inverters

It true to say most people would not even know what a pallet inverter is or what it does. Even less so would people realise that the pallet inverter, a machine that only came into existence in it’s present form a little over thirty years ago, has actually grown to become a vital part of the manufacturing and distribution world. In truth it is fair to say the pallet inverter is turning the world upside down.

So what does a pallet inverter do? Well in many environments now there is the requirement for pallets to be removed from the bottom of a stack of goods. Actually as most goods are moved by pallet trucks these days nearly all items over a certain weight require a pallet under them to allow a forklift to push it’s forks beneath the load. These pallet either get broken in use and need replacing or else they are the wrong type for the environment and need swapping. (The chemical industry often uses plastic pallets rather than the more normal wooden pallets.)

This is where the pallet inverter comes in. It allows a load to have a new pallet put on top and then turns the load 180 degree so that the new pallet is at the base and ready to take the weight of the goods it is to carry. The old pallet is then removed and discarded or put to one side for later use on leaving the distribution center.

When you consider that a multi-million dollar industry have built up around this simple need to turn a load over and that many times if a pallet inverter fails production has to stop, it illustrates just how a straight forward and yet robust piece of machinery like a premier pallet inverter really has turned the world upside down.

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Frank L Garsome has been writing  for many years. He has a particular interest in pallet inverters.

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