Multi-pack nestable case

A low depth case for carrying a plurality of bottles taller than the crate comprising a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls connected to a case bottom having a plurality of bottle supporting platforms, said side walls and said end walls having a lower part including a plurality of flat panels separated by windows centered in said bottle receiving platforms, and an upper part including a substantially continuous, solid band of uniform height, said solid band in said end walls having handle-forming through openings therein to thereby define a respective pair of handles;

• wherein said flat panels in said side walls and said end walls are each provided on a flat interior surface thereof with a pair of adjacent, relatively thick, vertically extending ribs, said ribs projecting inwardly from said interior surface and each rib having one concave corner edge facing radially towards a center of an adjacent bottle supporting platform;
• wherein said solid band ins aid side walls and said end walls is provided on an interior surface thereof with a plurality of vertically extending buttresses, each directly above a respective window, and each having an inwardly facing concave surface.

A low depth case for carrying a plurality of bottles comprising a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls connected to a case bottom having a plurality of bottle supporting platforms, said side walls and said end walls having a lower part including a plurality of flat panels separated by windows, and an upper part including a substantially continuous, solid band, said solid band in said end walls having handle-forming through openings therein;

• wherein said flat panels are each provided on a flat interior surfaces thereof with a pair of adjacent, relatively thick, vertically extending ribs, said ribs projecting inwardly from said flat interior surface and each rib having one concave corner edge facing radially towards a center of an adjacent bottle supporting platforms;
• and further comprising a plurality of interior columns extending upwardly from said case bottom and spaced inwardly from said side walls and said end walls, none of said columns located along longitudinal and transverse center axes of the case.

A case for carrying a plurality of bottles comprising a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls connected to a case bottom having a plurality of bottle supporting platforms, said side walls and said end walls having a lower part including a plurality of flat panels separated by windows and an upper part including a substantially solid band extending about the periphery of the case and defining a continuous top edge of the case of uniform height, said solid band provided with handle-forming openings in said end walls;

• and wherein said solid band is provided on an interior surface thereof with a plurality of vertically extending buttresses, each directly above a respective window;
• and further wherein each of said buttresses includes a concave surface extending vertically in a lower portion of said buttress and tapered outwardly in an upper portion of said buttress, with a pair of vertically extending convex ribs on said concave surface extending along both of said upper and lower portions of said buttress, and centered on an adjacent bottle supporting platform.