Bottle crate

A bottle crate, comprising:

• a bottom;
• two pairs of mutually opposed outer walls including two longitudinal outer walls and two transverse outer walls, which are upstanding and joined to the bottom at an outer perimeter of the bottom, and to respective perimetrically neighboring ones of said outer walls, at respective corners;
• a plurality of longitudinal dividing elements and a plurality of transverse dividing elements by which a space bounded by said outer walls and said bottom is divided into a plurality of adjoining positioning compartments in a longitudinal direction and a plurality of adjoining positioning compartments in a transverse direction;
• said positioning compartments each having, a plurality of supports located at a level, assuming an upright position of said crate, which is above said bottom by an amount which is further above said bottom than a given distance, which given distance is equal to the height from said bottom of the center of gravity of each of a plurality of like liquid-continuing closed bottles having respective bottoms and a predetermined weight distribution and intended to be at least one of transported and stored in said crate, which act in the transverse direction towards the interior of the respective said positioning compartment and which, at a respective said outer wall limiting the respective said positioning compartment in the transverse direction, project beyond the bottom of the respective said positioning compartment, so that respective supports are arranged to hold fast a respective said bottle when said bottle is standing in the respective said positioning compartment in a position in which the respective said bottle can be tilted about a respective said support when the bottle crate is placed on a respective said outer wall, the bottom of the respective said bottle being displaced, as the crate is tilted from said upright position onto a respective said outer wall, against the respective said outer wall;
• said transverse dividing elements having, at least in a respective region of each located close to said bottom of said crate, dividing elements that are movable in said transverse direction, allowing a respective said bottle when standing in a respective said positioning compartment to be tilted about the respective said support thereby displacing the bottom of the respective said bottle and moving the respective said dividing element towards a respectively adjacent said positioning compartment as the bottle crate is placed on the respective said outer wall.