Full-depth nestable crate
OwnerPatrick James McGrath, Robert C. Allabaugh, Jr.inventors
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Abstract
A full-depth nestable crate includes a plurality of columns, projections and channels disposed along exterior and interior surfaces of a retainer wall such that a top crate is nestable within a bottom crate in a first position and stacked on top of a bottom crate when rotated 180.degree. to a second position with respect to the bottom crate. A plurality of stacking rings depend from the bottom floor and interlock a top crate with a bottom crate when crates are stacked or nested. Each stacking ring is aligned with a pocket in the crate and disposed over a bottle in a bottom crate. A bottle cap on the bottle seats within a depression formed in the stacking ring.
Claims10
A full-depth nestable crate with a second crate of a like configuration, comprising:
- (a) a floor having a top and bottom;
- (b) a wall attached to the floor extending along the periphery thereof, said wall having an interior wall surface and an exterior wall surface and said wall having an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion;
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- (c) said interior surface along the upper wall portion is displaced, with respect to said interior wall surface along the lower wall portion, toward the exterior wall surface of the crate forming a substantially horizontally disposed nesting step between the interior surface of the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion, whereby a lower portion of said crate is nestable within the upper portion of said second crate wall and the bottom of said floor of said crate is supported on a nesting step in the second crate, whereby said crate is nestable within the second crate up to one-half of the height of said crate.
A full-depth nestable crate, comprising:
- (a) a floor having a top and bottom;
- (b) a wall attached to the floor extending along the periphery thereof, said wall having an interior wall surface and an exterior wall surface and said wall having an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion;
- (c) said interior surface along the upper wall portion is displaced, with respect to said interior wall surface along the lower wall portion, toward the exterior wall surface of the crate forming a nesting step between the interior surface of the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion, whereby a lower portion of said crate is nestable within the upper portion of a second crate wall and the bottom of said floor of said crate is supported on a nesting step in the second crate, whereby said lower portion of the crate is nestable within the upper wall portion of a second crate up to one-half of the height of said crate;
- (d) said interior surface having a plurality of arcuate shaped support surfaces along the lower portion of the wall forming a plurality of pockets within which a bottle may stand;
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- (e) said interior surface having a plurality of arcuate shaped upper support surfaces along the upper portion of the retainer wall wherein each said upper support surface is concentrically aligned above a lower support surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.