Nestable crate for beverage bottles

A nestable crate for bottles, comprising:

• (a) a generally rectangular horizontally disposed floor having a top surface and a bottom surface;
• (b) a retainer wall attached to the floor and extending along a periphery of the wall, said retainer wall having two end walls and two side walls;
• (c) said retainer wall having alternating upper and lower wall sections facing an interior of the crate and extending along respective side walls and end walls of the retainer wall, said upper wall sections and lower wall sections having planar vertically disposed surfaces, being coplanar along the respective side wall or end wall along said wall sections defining an interior surface of the retainer wall;
• (d) said upper wall sections are spaced above the floor and said lower wall sections are attached to the floor extending upward therefrom, and each lower wall section having two edges, defining a width of the lower wall section, extending upward and terminating at a bottom edge of the upper wall sections, and the alignment of upper wall sections and lower wall sections forming a plurality of nesting windows in the retainer wall, each said nesting window being disposed directly below an upper wall section, and said nesting window defining a void in the retainer wall below each said upper wall section whereby said upper wall sections of a bottom crate nest adjacent corresponding nesting windows of a top crate;
• and,
• (e) a plurality of nesting steps disposed along each of the respective end walls and side walls of the retainer wall wherein each said nesting step is positioned between a consecutive pair of upper wall sections, and said nesting step defining a void along the retainer wall having sufficient dimensions with respect to said lower wall sections
• whereby the lower wall sections on a top crate nest adjacent corresponding nesting steps of a bottom tray.

A nestable crate for bottles, comprising:

• (a) a generally rectangular horizontally disposed floor having a top surface and a bottom surface;
• (b) a retainer floor attached to the floor and extending along a periphery of the wall, said retainer wall having two end walls and two side walls;
• (c) said retainer wall having alternating upper and lower wall sections facing an interior of the crate and extending along respective side walls and end walls of the retainer wall, said upper wall sections and lower wall sections having planar vertically disposed surfaces, being coplanar along the respective side wall or end wall along said wall sections defining an interior surface of the retainer wall;
• and,
• (d) said retainer wall having a plurality of alternating upper and lower nesting voids formed in the retainer wall, each said upper nesting void being disposed between a consecutive pair of upper wall sections along the retainer wall and above a lower wall section, said lower wall sections being attached to said floor and extending upward and terminating at said upper nesting void, and each said lower nesting void being disposed between a consecutive pair of lower wall sections along the retainer wall and directly below an upper wall section.

A nestable crate for bottles comprising:

• a horizontally disposed floor;
• a retainer wall having an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion being attached to the floor;
• a plurality of spaced apart tangency surfaces protruding from the retainer wall upper portion for contacting bottles located adjacent thereto;
• a stacking void formed in the lower portion below each tangency surface, the stacking void operable to cooperatively associate with a tangency surface of an adjacent identical crate when the crates are stacked vertically.

A nestable crate for bottles comprising:

• a horizontally disposed floor;
• a double wall retainer wall attached to the floor and having an interior surface and an exterior surface and having an upper portion and a lower portion;
• a plurality of spaced apart tangency pads formed in the interior surface and spaced apart along the upper portion of the retainer wall for contacting bottles located adjacent thereto;
• a nesting step intermediate consecutive tangency pads formed by the displacement of the interior surface toward the exterior surface relative to the tangency pads, the nesting step operable to cooperatively associate with the lower portion of the inner surface of the retainer wall of an adjacent identical crate when the crates are stacked vertically.