Plastic container with strapped base

A container comprising a flat foot base having strap ribs and a sidewall having recessed columns, the strap ribs and recessed columns vertically lined up to resist deformation in the base and the sidewall, the container comprising:

• a flat foot base comprising a gate, a dome, and flat feet, the gate centered on a central axis of the container, the dome extending from the gate toward a resting surface of the container without contacting the resting surface, the dome surrounding the gate about the central axis, the flat feet extending from the dome to the resting surface;
• a sidewall connected to the base, the sidewall extending substantially along the central axis to define at least part of an interior of the container;
• a bell connected to the sidewall and leading upward and radially inward to a finish connected to the bell;
• a plurality of strap ribs positioned in the base between the flat feet, the strap ribs extending radially outward from at least one of the gate or the dome toward the sidewall, the strap rib sloping upward relative to the resting surface toward the sidewall from the at least one of the gate or the dome to resist deformation of the base;
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• a plurality of recessed columns positioned in the sidewall, the recessed columns comprising sidewall ribs extending along a periphery of the sidewall and centered about the central axis, wherein portions of the sidewall between the sidewall ribs are substantially continuous along the periphery of the sidewall, the recessed columns configured to resist at least one of bending, leaning, crumbling, or stretching along the sidewall, wherein the sidewall ribs comprise a plurality of varying depth ribs positioned along the periphery of the sidewall, wherein each varying depth rib comprises shallow sections and deep sections, the shallow sections having a rib depth less than a rib depth of the deep sections, wherein the shallow sections of the plurality of varying depth ribs vertically line up along the central axis to form the recessed columns;
• wherein the strap ribs and the recessed columns vertically line up along the central axis to form pressure resistance bands such that each pressure resistance band comprises a strap rib vertically lined up along the central axis with a recessed column, the pressure resistance bands configured to communicate forces on the container vertically along the container between the base and the sidewall to continuously resist deformation in the base and the sidewall.