Socket-defining member for bottle crate having a locating region for a bottle closure adjacent an inner end of the socket

摘要

A socket-defining member 10 for a bottle crate includes a body member having an inner wall 32 which defines a socket 24. Socket 24 has a first region being a locating region 34 adjacent an operatively inner end 36 of the socket for locating a closure of a bottle and a second region 40 intermediate an entrance 38 of the socket and the locating region. Inner wall 32 bounding the second region 40 is shaped and configured to provide working clearance between it and the closure and the axial dimension 42 of the locating region 34 is at most one quarter of the axial dimension 44 of socket 24.