Editing Pallet (section)

==History==
[[File:Çok Sayıda Palet(Ambalaj), Üstüste dizilmiş.jpg|thumb|Stacked pallets in Turkey|alt=Several large stacks of pallets]]
Skids date back to Ancient Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia, at least as far back as the 1st millennium B.C.<ref>"Remains of timber, the lengths laid upon the pavement parallel to one another (fig. 114) where a large number of blocks were found, suggest skids upon which they were moved". (Loud, 1936: 108). Cited by Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, ''Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archeological Evidence'' (Eisenbrauns, 1999), [https://books.google.com/books?id=P_Ixuott4doC&dq=ancient+assyria+skids&pg=PA32 page 32].</ref>

The development of the forklift and the needs of World War II logistics operations led to substantial use of pallets.<ref name="Vanderbilt">{{cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/business/transport/2012/08/pallets_the_single_most_important_object_in_the_global_economy_.html|title=Pallets: The single most important object in the global economy |last=Vanderbilt|first=Tom|date=14 August 2012|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|access-date=16 August 2012}}</ref>

References to the early modern pallets types are slim with a string of patents showing parts of the development. The earliest may be a U.S. patent on a skid from 1924 describing Howard T. Hallowell's "Lift Truck Platform".<ref>[[United States Patent Office]], [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/1508183.pdf Lift-Truck Platform], patent reference 1,508,183, awarded 9 September 1924, accessed 21 January 2017</ref> In the late 1930s, pallets became more commonplace with the newer forklift types. George G. Raymond and William C. House filed for a patent in 1937 (granted US Patent 2178646 in 1939) for a pallet designed to complement a new pallet jack design;<ref name="Raymond">{{cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US2178646?oq=george+raymond+pallet|title=US Patent 2178646 A|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> the essential features of both are still in common use today. A 1939 patent from Carl Clark shows a type of pallet with steel stringers. Wartime developments were often patented just after the war, so there is a patent from Robert Braun on a four-way pallet in 1945, and a patent from Norman Cahners (a U.S. Navy supply officer) shows a disposable pallet in 1949. The principle of a modern four-way pallet is described by Darling Graeme in 1949.<ref>{{cite web |last=Singh |first=R. R. |date=2013-07-18 |title=Pallets – An efficient and safe way of material handling |url=http://www.bis.org.in/sf/Pallets.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202170022/http://www.bis.org.in/sf/Pallets.pdf |archive-date=2 February 2014 |access-date=22 January 2014 |publisher=Bureau of Indian Standards}}</ref>