What are Pallet Inverters and Turners?

The earliest pallet handlers were fabricated in the workshops of large plants or local machine and welding shops. Cascade Turnabout was an early commercial inverter made to mount on forklifts. Fertilizer and chemical plants saw the need for these machines as bags or containers of product on the bottom of pallets were torn and leaking. The idea helped in keeping the warehouse cleaner. There was also a need to move product from the expensive pallet belonging to the warehouse of the manufacturer, to the cheaper pine pallets of the customer. What was probably the first freestanding inverter was manufactured in Norfolk around 1976. ICI Fertilizers bought about sixty of these units for their warehouse. The company saved greatly on cleanup and the loss of their own pallets, not to mention the labour saved from moving product from one pallet to another. Cold storage facilities found a need for these to replace broken and dangerous pallets. With frost on the rack system, a broken pallet can be deadly. A broken pallet that is put into the rack will almost always need special attention in getting it out. Frost complicates the problem. A pallet handler makes it much easier and less time consuming to remove the broken pallet and replace it. It also cuts the amount of people needed for the job to only one.There are many uses for pallet handlers, and today there is a machine for almost every application. Pile turners can be used to aerate sheets of paper for printing; they come in applications that force air between the sheets. These are indispensable to the printing business. Tippers are used to tip a coil or roll ninety degrees, so the bands can be cut, and the coil or roll may be rolled to where it is needed. These are a necessary asset to any industry that handles heavy rolls or coils of material. Inverters turn a pallet upside down, or 180 degrees, eliminating the need for stacking and restacking. These are extremely useful to any industry or business that needs to move product from one pallet to another, or remove damaged goods from the bottom or the middle of the pallet on a regular basis, cutting down manpower and time consumed on the task.So if anyone asks you about pallet inverters, what they are and why, now you know!