Patent ID: 8328009

Claim:
A bottle crate, comprising: at least one tray having a plurality of bottle receiving pockets configured to receive a plurality of bottles, each bottle receiving pocket having a center and a plurality of walls; a plurality of upwardly projecting fingers elastically arranged on at least one of the plurality of walls in each bottle receiving pocket of the at least one tray, the fingers being positioned over a cut-out in a lower portion of the at least one wall and movable in response to insertion or removal of at least one bottle of the plurality of bottles, each of the fingers in each plurality of fingers are connected together at a bottom end above the cut-out and at a top end and being separated by an aperture between each finger, each finger including a top formed at a first distance from the center of the bottle receiving pocket and a bottom formed at a second distance from the center of the bottle receiving pocket greater than the first distance.