Beverage crate with centring function for bottles and additional recess for serialisation application

A receiving container for receiving containers, wherein the receiving containers having a plurality of receiving areas for receiving the containers separately from one another and in the same orientation, wherein one container is received in each receiving area, and wherein the receiving container having at least one wall delimiting this receiving container, and wherein each of these receiving areas having a bottom in order to support the containers via their bottom regions,

• wherein
• each of these bottoms has a recess through which a bottom of a container located in this receiving area can be observed, and wherein
• the receiving containers are gripped by a gripping device and are brought into an image receiving area of the image receiving device.

An apparatus for inspecting bundles, having a first transport device configured to transport receiving containers fitted with containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein the containers each having a marking in their bottom regions which unambiguously identifies the containers and/or which is characteristic of at least one property of the containers,

• wherein
• the apparatus has an image recording device configured to record at least one image of the bottom regions of the containers located in the receiving container and to output at least one information which is characteristic of the markings arranged on the containers and/or of the containers and/or of at least one property of the containers, and wherein
• the apparatus comprises a second transport device configured to transport the receiving containers to the image receiving device and/or to transport the receiving containers away from the image receiving device.