Patent ID: 7661529

Claim:
An improved stackable tray having a bottom wall with a pair of bottom wall sections separated by a pair of upwardly extending spaced divider walls terminating in a divider edge and forming a bottom wall recess therebetween, a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall and forming a storage compartment therebetween, said side walls extending upwardly outwardly angled from said bottom wall, a plurality of divider panels extending between the divider walls and the side walls dividing the storage compartment into a plurality of sub-compartments, and a support handle extending between the end walls and above the side walls for manually transporting the tray, said handle being adapted to be received within the bottom wall recess of an adjacent tray stacked upon said tray; wherein the improvement comprises each of the end walls having a lower portion and an offset upper portion with a generally flat planar ledge formed on each of the end walls between said upper and lower portions and extending inwardly toward each other and lying in a common horizontal plane; the support handle connected to and extending between the upper portions of the end walls and spaced above the flat planar ledge a distance less than the height of the bottom wall recess whereby said handle is nestable within the bottom wall recess of an adjacent upper tray when said tray is in a stacked relationship with said upper tray which is supported on the flat planar ledges of said tray; and said divider panels being secured to at least one of the side walls, divider walls and bottom wall sections by a bent end flange; and drain openings formed between the divider panels and at least one of the bottom wall sections, divider walls and side walls.