Carrying case for bottles

Claim 1

A lightweight case for storing and carrying a plurality of bottles in aligned relationship, each of said bottles having a neck, a shoulder and a body, said case comprising: a one-piece rack member of a rigid, flexible plastic having an elongated bottom face for supporting said bottles, the width of said bottom face being less than the diameter of said body; a pair of side faces each joined at the bottom edge thereof to a side edge of said bottom face, each side face having apertures each having side edges and a top rim therein for permitting said bodies to protrude therethrough, each side face having a top edge, the height of said side face corresponding approximately to the height of said shoulders above the bottoms of said bottles to be held in said rack; and a clip member having first and second spaced-apart clip elements for receiving and holding releasably said top edges of said side faces, the distance between said clip elements being such that said top edges must be displaced toward each other over said shoulders of said bottles for said top edges to be received and held by said clip member, thereby providing for engagement of each by said bottom face and by said side edges and top rim of an aperture in each side face whereby each of said bottles is securely held against accidental dislodgement.