Package construction

A package construction comprising a single-piece tray and a plurality of containers carried within said tray;

• each of said containers comprising, a side wall having a top edge portion, an annular flange extending outwardly from said top edge portion and terminating in a peripheral toroidal bead, and a closure sealed against said bead and having at least a portion thereof extending outwardly of said flange;
• said tray having a top wall and a plurality of open top chambers disposed beneath said top wall and each of said chambers being defined by a bottom wall adjoined by an outwardly extending tubular wall, said top wall comprising, a set of flange supports adjoining an associated tubular wall and supporting said flanges of associated containers thereon, a set of closure supports adjoining associated ones of said flange supports, a plurality of coplanar top surface portions adjoining said closure supports, said closure supports receiving said outwardly extending portions of said closures therewithin beneath said coplanar top surface portions, and a plurality of roughly V-shaped structures each having opposed end edges which adjoin and coincide smoothly with the closely adjacent sides of adjacent tubular walls of adjacent open top chambers.