Abstract: An end nesting stackable container is modified with means to firmly contain material being shipped or stored inside the container. The means contact the load being shipped at at least 4 points and are advantageously pivoted out of the way of the container during nesting. The preferred embodiment is directed at the shipping and storing of automotive windshields.

Abstract: A receptacle which may be tiered or stacked with other like receptacles and adapted to be nested when empty. Each receptacle in the tier or stack is intended to hold food products that are to be placed in a smoke house for cooking with the weight of each receptacle being supported by the product in the next lower receptacle in the stack and thus serving as a press to compress the product in said lower receptacle until such time as the product shrinks through the cooking process to a predetermined height. When the product is reduced to this predetermined height, each receptacle seats upon and rests upon the next lower receptacle in the stack to prevent further transmission of the product load and thus stops the pressing action at the predetermined height. Each receptacle is of unique design whereby it may be used to accommodate two alternate heights of smoked food product.

Abstract: A container adapted to nest and tier with like containers, with the container having a bottom wall and side walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall and terminating in a top edge extending around the container, and with there being provided tiering means projecting laterally of the ends of the container for tiering the container on the top edge of a like container with at least a portion of the ends of the container being open, and with one container being adapted to be entered into the first container in a tilted position so that the tiering means on the entering container passes through one of the open ends and beneath the overlying upper edge of the receiving container, and then the entering container is moved generally vertically downwardly into nested relation into the receiving container.