Milk bottles

A blow-molded light-weight thin-walled plastic milk bottle having a volume of substantially three quarts and weighing less than 60 grams, having a substantially rectangular 4 inch by 6 inch cross-section having a 4-inch wide front wall, a 4 inch wide lower rear wall parallel to said front wall and two parallel 6 inch wide side walls at right angles to said front and lower rear walls, said front, lower rear and side walls being substantially vertical and substantially planar, said container having a central squat generally cylindrical upright spout, said spout having an upper mouth opening and having a screw thread therebelow, said mouth opening being adapted to be tightly closed by a correspondingly threaded plastic cap, said bottle having an integral continuously hollow handle centrally positioned with respect to said lower rear wall and an upper rear wall spaced horizontally from said handle, said handle having a substantially vertical main upright portion whose base is adjacent to said lower rear wall, said upright portion being spaced from said upper rear wall sufficiently to provide space for the four fingers of a hand, side-by-side in vertical array, the top of said upright handle portion communicating with a gently sloping upper generally horizontal handle portion which communicates with the bottle just below said spout, said bottle having an inclined top wall which intersects said front wall and said side walls, each of said side walls having an inwardly projecting substantially horizontal band which varies in depth being deepest at a zone about midway between the vertical edges of said side walls, said inwardly projecting band extending around said edges.