US Patent 10040599 Closed polygonal cell shipping pallet

Shipping pallets with a single-piece base, where the base is a substantially planar substrate with a top side and a bottom side, the pallet including a plurality of feet formed from depressions in the substrate, where each foot protrudes from the bottom side of the substrate in an arcuate fashion, and a plurality of partitions are disposed normally from the top side of the substrate with each partition smoothly meeting the substrate in an arcuate fashion. A lid is configured to fit atop the single-piece base covering the plurality of partitions to form a closed polygon cell system. In some examples, the partitions form chambers with four, five, six, eight, or twenty sides.