Container, Method of Making a Container, and Apparatus for Manufacturing a Container

An apparatus for manufacturing a bottle, the bottle comprising a paperboard outer shell and an inner pouch, a side wall of the outer shell being formed from a paperboard blank having a main body panel for forming a cylindrical main body portion of the bottle and a plurality of neck panels for forming a cylindrical neck portion of the bottle, the cylindrical main body portion having a first, larger diameter, and the cylindrical neck portion having a second, smaller diameter, and the apparatus comprising:

• means for forming a limit feature on an inner surface of the side wall element at a distance from an end of the side wall element;
• and
• a base insertion assembly for positioning a base element of the shell with respect to the end of the side wall and inserting the base element into an opening defined by the end of the side wall until an edge region of the base element contacts the limit feature.