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A TUBE TRAY CONSISTING OF A THIN-WALLED BODY OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM THICKNESS HAVING AN UPPER PERIPHERAL EDGE OF RECTANGULAR CONFIGURATION PROVIDED WITH A PAIR OF ELONGATED OPPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL SIDES AND A PAIR OF ELONGATED OPPOSED SUBSTANTAILLY PARALLEL ENDS EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID SIDES AND BEING SHORTER THAN SAID SIDES, SAID BODY HAVING A PAIR OF OPPOSED SIDE WALLS EXTENDING DOWN FROM SAID SIDES OF SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE AND HAVING A BOTTOM WALL SITUATED DISTANT FROM SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE AND EXTENDING BETWEEN AND CONNECTED TO SAID SIDE WALLS, SAID BOTTOM WALL HAVING IN A PLANE SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO AND SITUATED BETWEEN SAID SIDE WALLS A SCALLOPED CONFIGURATION PROVIDING SAID BOTTOM WALL WITH A ROW OF UPWARDLY DIRECTED ELONGATED CHANNELS EACH EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID SIDE WALLS FOR RECEIVING A TUBE THEREIN, SAID CHANNELS TERWARDLY DIRECTED CONCAVE SURFACES AND DOWNWARDLY DIRECTED CONVEX SURFACES, AND SAID ROW OF CHANNELS TERMINATING AT ONE END IN AN END CHANNEL CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO ONE OF SAID ENDS OF SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE OF SAID BODY, SAID CHANNELS HAVING, IN A DIRECTION PARALLEL TO SAID SIDE OF SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE, A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM WIDTH AND SAID ROW OF CHANNELS TERMINATING DISTANT FROM SAID ONE END OF SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE IN AN END CHANNEL SPACED FROM THE OTHR END OF SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE BY A DISTANCE APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO ONE-HALF THE WIDTH OF EACH OF SAID CHANNELS, AND SAID BOTTOM WALL HAVING BETWEEN SAID OTHER END OF SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE OF SAID BODY AND THE END CHANNEL ADJACENT THERETO A BOTTOM WALL PORTION SITUATED AT AN ELEVATION HIGHER THAN THE LOWERMOST PORTIONS OF SAID CHANNELS.