The inventor of the patented crate is an art dealer who had seen the many issues associated with shipping and crating and the inherent loss of profit. The problem began with the crates themselves. A wooden crate was not enough.

With a background in design and architecture, he began a study of the issues and of the reasons the shipping handlers themselves so frequently damaged art.

The result was "The Floating Crate" – covered by one or both of the following United States Patents: 7,422,112 and 7,686,169. This patented design provides two walls of protection, where by, one crate actually floats within the other. A special foam absorber holds the art as if 'floating in air' and absorbs the shock that is created when the crate is dropped or treated roughly. There are no hard mountings. The valuable becomes resistant to shock transference by 'floating' inside the engineered protective shell. Testing done in a controlled environment demonstrated a 98% improvement in resistance to typical handling by a shipper, even under extreme conditions.