Appeal 2006-2032
Application 09/891,948
spacer member. The cans are thus held in their respective seating areas even
if the tray is inclined at a relatively steep angle (Hammett, col. 5, l. 52 to col.
6, l. 12).
McGrath discloses a crate for beverage bottles, the crate being
provided with side walls 27, end walls 26, handles on the end walls 26, and
bottle support surfaces 46, in the form of a partition 47, spaced apart
longitudinally from the side walls 27. As seen, for example, in Fig. 25, the
partition 47 appears to have a height slightly less than that of the top of the
handles on the end walls and approximately the same as the height of the
side walls 27. McGrath does not disclose handles on the side walls 27.
Sauey discloses a container for packaging and storing cylindrical
objects of varying diameter, the container being particularly useful for
packaging shotgun shells (Sauey, col. 1, ll. 15-17). The interior of the box
10 is divided into compartments 26 by a latticework of dividing walls 18, 20
(Sauey, col. 1, ll. 60-65). The dividing walls extend upwardly from box
bottom 30 to a height substantially less than the height of the opposed side
walls 22, 24 of the box (Figs. 1 and 3). A plurality of finger-like depressions
31 are molded in the bottom 30 concentric with the intersection of dividing
walls 18, 20. The depressions form arcuate protuberances 32 projecting into
the four corners of each of the compartments 26 (Sauey, col. 2, ll. 3-12).
The protuberances 32 apply pressure to an object placed into a compartment
26 to seat the object securely within a resilient embrace (Sauey, col. 2, ll. 22-
26).
Sauey’s box is provided with a cover 12 having sidewalls that
telescope over the side walls of the box (Sauey, col. 1, ll. 47-49). Sauey
gives no indication that the disclosed box 10 is intended to contain objects
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