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US 5,487,487 AGranted
Crenelated container case
AssigneeInternational Container Systems, Inc.
InventorRoy Hammett
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Abstract
A bottle carrier case having a crenelated side wall, for transporting bottles of beverage. The case has locating means on the bottom of the case for stably stacking the case and has openings provided in the concavities for easily removing the case from overlying bottles. The bottle carrier case is able to both directly stack and cross-stack up to about 50% of its overall depth.
Claims11
A nestable case for carrying a plurality of containers, comprising:
- a) a base having a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein said top surface comprises a plurality of areas corresponding to the plurality of containers;
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- b) a crenelated sidewall connected to said base and extending around said top surface of said base, said crenelated sidewall being dimensioned such that when an identical case is nested thereon, the sidewall of the identical case nests into the overlying case more than one-quarter the depth of the overlying case, and when the identical case is cross-stacked thereon, the identical case nests into the overlying case more that one-third the depth of the overlying case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.