Abstract: A shelf for storing bottles in a wine cabinet has a rectangular frame bounded by two side beams and two crossbeams, respectively front and rear, and being equipped with individualized reception locations for a plurality of bottles. Each slot has a cradle for the neck of a bottle, the cradle being equipped with a sensor to detect the presence of a bottle neck. The front crossbeam of the shelf can include, for each individualized location, an electronic device to visualize the presence of a bottle.

Abstract: A wine cabinet, whose façade is equipped with a door, has an interior volume having shelves. Each shelf is movable between two positions. Each shelf is equipped with reception spaces for a plurality of bottles, electronic detectors of the presence of a bottle and electronic devices of visualization of the presence. The power supply of those electronic detectors and electronic devices of visualization comes from a single centralized supply in the cabinet and supplies two vertical conductors placed inside a wall of the cabinet. Each shelf is electrically connected via a connecting cable flexible connect to vertical conductors. The connection shall be arranged at the level of the shelf on the inner face of the wall, the connecting cable having a sufficient length to ensure the connection when the shelf is deployed. Each shelf is equipped with elastic keeping the cable permanently stretched, whatever the position of the shelf.

Abstract: A carton for containing a plurality of articles. The carton includes a plurality of panels that extends at least partially around an interior of the carton. The plurality of panels comprising a top panel, a bottom panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel. An article protection insert comprises a plurality of features for engaging a respective article of the plurality of articles. At least one access feature is in the top panel for positioning the article protection insert to a position wherein the features engage at least one article of the plurality of articles.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a stackable storage rack system suitable for storing containers is provided. The system includes a base. The system also includes a plurality of compartments positionable within the base, wherein the compartments form a cavity within the base and have an opening on a top of the base designed to store containers. The system further includes at least 4 legs, wherein a top of the legs are connected to a bottom of the base at four separate bottom corners of the base. Additionally, the system includes an operational space formed by stacking at least two storage racks one on top of another wherein users of the system can retrieve containers from the bottom storage rack without interference from the top storage rack.

Abstract: A beverage container packing assembly includes a bottom tray defining a plurality of first compartments. The first compartments receive a first portion of a beverage container. The bottom tray includes first support columns. The beverage container packing assembly includes a center support defining through holes. The through holes receive a second portion of a beverage container therethrough. The center support includes second support columns configured to stack on the first support columns. The center support is configured to accommodate a thermo pack between a first row and a second row of the through holes. The beverage container packing assembly includes a top tray defining second compartments. The second compartments to receive a third portion of a beverage container therein.

Abstract: A bundling article that includes a panel that defines panel apertures, and at least one elastomer element, where the at least one elastomer element is bonded to the panel and has non-bonded portions that overlay the panel apertures. The non-bonded portions of the at least one elastomer element define stretchable apertures having dimensions that are smaller than respective dimensions of the panel apertures.

Abstract: A potted tree support assembly includes a housing with a bottom wall and a perimeter wall. A plurality of interlocking slats is positionable in the housing to define a plurality of compartments each configured for receiving a base of a tree therein. A plurality of receiving members is mounted onto an inner surface of the perimeter wall. Each of the receiving members has an associated opposing receiving member on the perimeter wall to define an aligned pair of the receiving members. Each of the slats has a pair of opposed ends and the opposed ends of each of the slats is removably positionable in a selectable one of the aligned pair of the receiving members. A plurality of legs is coupled to and extends downwardly from a bottom surface of the bottom wall.

Abstract: A carrying case for carrying and displaying consumer products, such as wine bottles. The carrying case can be restructured into a wine rack. The carrying case has a front and a back wall panel, each having an opening through which a portion of a wine bottle, or other consumer product, may extend. Two side panels connect to the front and back panels to secure the wine bottles by way of extending partially through the front and back wall panels. A central slot permits the four pieces to be reassembled into a wine rack which can hold wine bottles in a horizontal position.

Abstract: An apparatus for safely carrying or storing necked bottles, in particular wine bottles, has a top, a bottom having an opening, and an intermediate structure with an aperture axially aligned with the opening in the bottom. The neck of an inverted bottle is inserted through and supported by the aperture in the intermediate structure. The top of the neck of the bottle fits into, and is supported by, the opening in the bottom. A hinged, openable enclosure surrounds the area between the top and intermediate structure.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a re-usable packing case constituted by an outer rigid parallelepipedical structure e.g. of wood, comprising a parallelepipedical block of insulating material having cylindrical through holes adapted to receive bottles. The two side faces of this block of insulating material which are traversed by the cylindrical through holes are closed by plates of insulating material. One of these side faces of the outer, rigid structure, adjacent to one of the plates of insulating material, is constituted by a removable cover which is kept closed by appropriate means.The packing cases according to the present invention may be used specially for the transport and the storage of wine and liquor bottles, whereby free access to the interior of each case is maintained during storage in stacked condition.

Abstract: A package insert between two layers of articles comprises a rigid plate formed with openings spanned by at least one and preferably two flexible and advantageously elastic films which are deformed when upper articles are stacked on lower articles through the openings to nest the articles in place.

Abstract: A shipping container for glass bottles or other articles of uniform size and height, the container being formed of an upright structure of generally rectangular horizontal cross-sectional configuration and having internal partitions providing a plurality of vertical, loading columns extending from the bottom to the top, the structure having spaced apart horizontal slots extending from the front to the back, the spacing between the slots being slightly greater than the height of the articles for which the container is configured, and a plurality of trays, one being received in each of the slots, the trays being moveable to a loading position allowing articles to be inserted in each of the columns in the top until the bottom tray is filled, after which the next tray adjacent to the bottom is closed and additional articles inserted until, in sequence, each section between trays is filled.

Abstract: Lightweight, strong, thermoplastic foamed crates for storage and shipment of tender or fragile materials, especially produce such as fruit and vegetables, are prepared from (a) an extruded base and side panel structural foamed thermoplastics and (b) end plates and a divider or dividers which are injection molded foamed thermoplastic materials. This combination of materials reduces the number of molds and molding operations required to provide a large number of containers, since only end pieces and dividers need be molded and carried in inventory.The containers may also have perforated end plates to provide for ventilation or cooling as well as a ridged base or flooring to provide drainage and containment for juices of decaying produce.In addition to providing superior insulating qualities regarding loss of heat or refrigeration, the all-foam crate construction provides improved vibration dampening characteristics which in turn prevent bruising or breakage of tender or fragile items during transportation.

Abstract: A crate for beverage bottles and the like has separators for the bottles in the form of clusters of pillars extending upward from the lattice work bottom of the crate, each cluster being centered on the intersection of four bottle cells of the crate. The pillars of the same cluster are separated by one or two vertical slot-like gaps extending to the crate bottom to receive the partitions of a disposable bottle pack, so that the bottles can be loaded in the crate after they have already been placed in the disposable bottle packs in which they will go to consumer. The bottom of the bottle pack is provided with holes to allow the bottle separator pillars of the crate to extend up into the bottle pack. Instead of a single bottle pack fitting into the crate, two or more smaller bottle packs may fit adjacently into the crate, with their adjoining walls fitting into the same slot-like gaps of the pillar cluster.

Abstract: A plastic bottle case for holding two rows of bottles has two inner walls which extend between opposite ends of the case and slope upwardly and inwardly at an acute angle to one another. Lower edges of the inner walls are spaced inwardly from the respective sides of the case a distance less than the diameter of bottles to be received in the case. Openings having horizontal projections conforming to the cross sectional shape of the bottles are provided in the inner walls to receive the bottles so as to hold them erect and keep them from bumping one another. The bottles are supported by ledges at the bottoms of the openings in the inner walls, the bottom of the case being otherwise open. This construction permits a saving in weight and hence in the amount of plastic material required for the bottle case. A further saving of material is achieved by making the sides and ends of the case of vertically spaced horizontal bands extending between angular columns at the corners of the case.

Abstract: A plastic bottle case comprises four side walls, a bottom and a plurality of partitions extending between only two opposite side walls, the partitions having spaced V-shaped laterally projecting portions and a projection extending parallel to the opposite side walls from the apex of each of the V-shaped portions. The partitions and the projections are spaced apart a distance slightly greater than the diameter of bottles to be received in the case. The V-shaped projecting portions and the projections together extend a distance greater than the radius of the bottles but not to the next partition. A bottle carrier adapted to be received in the case has a bottom and opposite side walls, one of the side walls and the bottom being provided with cutouts to receive the V-shaped laterally projecting portions and the projections from the apices of such portions when the bottle carrier with bottles therein is placed between two partitions of the case.

Abstract: A rack to hold up to 116 standard wine bottles or similar contents consists of a square outer frame having two diagonal partitions in each direction, the partitions being slotted to interfit at their intersections. Four end pieces are provided, one for each end of each pair of partitions and the end pieces are bolted to the outer frame members. Each end piece consists of a rectangular base and a strip along opposed edges of the base which is nailed to the base. Each strip in cross-section has a back, a front parallel to and congruent with the back and two complementary sides consisting of right-angle grooves. Holes extended from back to front for the bolts which connect the sides to the outer frame. A T-nut or other fastener is preferably recessed into the front to engage the bolt. One edge of the base fits into one of the grooves in the sides of the strip and is nailed in place. An edge of a partition fits into the other groove in the strip.

Abstract: A bottle packing comprises a plastic bottle case receiving a plurality of cardboard or plastic bottle carriers. The case is divided by wedge-like compartment walls having sloping sides in which cutouts are provided to receive lower portions of bottles. The bottle carriers have a narrow bottom and sloping sides conforming to the compartment walls of the case and likewise having cutouts for the bottles. The carriers may also have cutouts for upper portions of the bottles and cutouts near the top to provide a handle. The carriers may receive one or two rows of bottles. The bottles can be placed in the case with or without carriers. When no carriers are used, the compartment walls prevent the bottles from striking one another.