Patent ID: 6401960
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A low depth bottle crate having a peripheral wall of uniform height, said peripheral wall including a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls; a longitudinal interior partition extending between said end walls and a plurality of transverse interior partitions extending between said side walls to thereby create a plurality of bottle receiving pockets within said peripheral wall; a crate bottom connected to said peripheral wall, an upper surface of said crate bottom formed to include a bottle supporting platform for each bottle receiving pocket; a plurality of interior columns located at intersections of said transverse partitions and said longitudinal partition, each said interior column having an interior surface facing radially into each of four of said bottle receiving pockets that surround each of said interior columns, each surface having a pair of vertically extending interior convex ribs adapted to provide support for a bottle loaded into the respective pocket.