托盘是一种设计用于通过物料搬运设备运送，运输和堆放各种货物的装载机。它由许多顶板，三个50 mm x 100 mm的纵梁和几个底板隔开，以便用手动或电动托盘车运输。使用中的大多数托盘是由木材制成的，但是托盘也可以由塑料，铝，钢甚至纸板制成。标准的木托盘有两种基本设计：

• •双向入口托盘：

该货盘只能由货盘车和叉车搬运，但只能从相对的两个侧面进行。托盘的底板大约有一个。两端各有150毫米宽的板，然后有大约200毫米的空间供托盘车的装载轮进入并旋转。托盘底部的中央装有填充板。

• •四向入口托盘：

该货盘的底板设计与上面的2通货盘相同。此外，它在货盘车的200 mm开口处切开了纵梁，从而为叉车的货叉也从货盘的侧面进入提供了足够的空间。因此命名为4向入口托盘。

A pallet is a load carrier designed to carry, transport and stack various goods with Material Handling Equipment. It consist of a number of top boards, three 50 mm x 100 mm stringers and several bottom boards spaced to allow the transport with manual or electric powered pallet trucks. Most of the pallets in use are made from wood, but pallets are also available made from plastic, aluminum, steel and even cardboard. The standard wood pallet comes in two basic designs:

• • Two-Way Entry Pallet:

This pallet can be handled by pallet trucks and by forklift trucks but only from two opposite sides. The bottom boards of the pallet have a approx. 150 mm wide board on either end followed by a approximately 200 mm space for the pallet trucks load wheels to enter and rotate in. The centre of the pallet bottom is provided with filler boards.

• • Four-Way Entry Pallet:

This pallet has the same bottom board design as the 2-way pallet above. In addition it has the stringers cut back at the 200 mm opening for pallet trucks allowing sufficient space for the forks of a forklift truck to be entered also from the sides of the pallet. Therefore the name 4-way entry pallet.