Nestable can tray with contoured wall structure

A low depth nestable tray for containers, said tray having a floor structure with a floor top surface, a floor bottom surface, and a plurality of container support areas on the floor top surface, wherein the improvements comprise:

• a low depth wall structure comprising a plurality of columns arranged generally perpendicularly to the floor structure along the periphery of the floor structure, and further comprising a band having side and end portions spaced above the floor structure and connected to the floor structure by said columns to form a unitary construction, wherein said band includes parallel portions generally parallel to the floor structure and is contoured downwardly along the side portions between the parallel portions to form a band central portion that directly connects to the floor structure at the side portions of said tray.

A low depth nestable tray for container, having a floor structure with a floor top surface, a floor bottom surface, and a plurality of container support areas on the floor top surface, wherein the improvements comprise:

• a low depth wall structure comprising a plurality of columns arranged along the periphery of the floor structure, and further comprising a band having side and end portions spaced above the floor structure and connected to the floor structure by said columns to form a unitary construction, wherein said band is contoured downwardly along the side portions to form a band side detail that directly connects to the floor surface at the side portions of said tray, and wherein an uppermost edge of the band side detail is an uppermost surface of the wall structure at the band side detail and wherein the upper edge of the band side detail at each band side detail is below an uppermost surface of the side and end portions of the band.

A low depth nestable tray for containers comprising:

• a floor structure with a floor top surface, a floor bottom surface, and a plurality of container support areas on the floor top surface;
• a low depth wall structure comprising a plurality of cloumns generally transvers to the floor structure and arranged along the periphyery of the floor structure, and further comprising a band having side and end portions spaced above the floor structure, the band connected to the floor structure by said columns, and wherein theband is contoured downwardly to form a band corner portion that directly connects to the floor structure at each corner of the tray, wherein a top surface of the band at the band corner portion is the uppermost surface of the tray at the band corner portion to contact and support a like tray nested thereabove.